Indicators of Character Strengths in Individuals with Different Heart Rate Variability
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structure of individual experience
systemogenesis
well-being
ways to achieve well-being
character strengths
heart rate variability
heart rate entropy

Abstract

Introduction. The problem of inter-coordination of systemogenesis processes in achieving a purposeful result is part of the problem of inter-coordination of individuals in achieving a collective result. The aim of the study was to assess the expression of indicators of 24 character strengths in individuals with different heart rate variability indicators. Since we previously showed that Heart Rate Variability (HRV) characteristics are related to the features of the structure and dynamics of actualized individual experience in achieving results, and also that the difference in ways individuals solve complex cognitive tasks and their character strength patterns correlate, we tested the hypotheses about different heart rhythm organization in participants with different patterns of 24 character strengths.

Methods. Study participants (N=145; Med = 19 years old) completed the "Scale of Analyticity-Holism" and "24 Character Strengths" (VIA-24) methods, after which a cardiorhythmogram was recorded while they solved complex cognitive tasks.

Results. A cluster analysis was performed on the heart rate variability indicators "Mean Heart Rate" and "Standard Deviation of Normalized RR-intervals", resulting in two clusters being identified. It was determined that these clusters differ in the dynamics of the indicators "Standard Deviation of Normalized RR-intervals" and "Sample Entropy": a cluster with high heart rate variability and its increasing complexity, and a cluster with low variability and its decreasing complexity. These same clusters differ in the pattern of character strengths.

Discussion. Since the possibility of identifying groups of study participants with differing ratios of heart rate variability indicators and character strength patterns has been established, it is concluded that substantive differences in the organization of the structure of individual experience, recorded by psychometric methods, are associated with the dynamic characteristics of the actualization of experience in behavior.

https://doi.org/10.21702/rpj.2025.3.10
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