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Art-of-Living

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 63)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45324-8

ISBN: 978-3-319-45323-1

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Sep 30, 2016

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Chapter 1Introduction: Advantages of Using the Concept Art-of-Living

Schmitz, Bernhard

Pages: 1 –21

[In this chapter we start with discussing ways of leading a good life. We refer to Veenhoven’s important discrimination between ways for leading a good life and the results of leading a good life, which are happiness or well-being. Then we discuss different criteria for happiness: subjective...
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Chapter 2Development of a Questionnaire Measuring Art-of-Living

Schmitz, Bernhard

Pages: 23 –44

[Questions concerning happiness have drawn more and more interest. In philosophy, strategies and attitudes regarding happiness were dealt with under the topic art-of-living. In our study we will try to adapt the philosophical concept of art-of-living, thus allowing empirical psychological...
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Chapter 3Validation Studies for Art-of-Living

Schmitz, Bernhard

Pages: 45 –91

[In Chap. 1 we introduced our concept art-of-living. Then we developed a questionnaire measuring art-of-living. Now we want to validate art-of-living demonstrating meaningful relationships with various constructs. We start with the relationship to well-being and flourishing which are viewed as...
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Chapter 4Measurement of Art-of-Living in Daily Life by Diaries

Schmitz, Bernhard

Pages: 93 –108

[First, as a primary step we want to present another source that our questionnaire for art-of-living yields valid data. We want to do that by comparing diary entrances regarding art-of-living aggregated across a longer time-span with the one-time questionnaire data. Secondly, we correlate state...
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Chapter 5Interventions to Enhance Art-of-Living

Schmitz, Bernhard

Pages: 109 –174

[The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate that art-of-living can be changed by training the individual components. In the introduction we referred to meta-analyses with respect to positive psychology interventions and argued that the “how” and “what” of interventions deserve considerations. The...
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Chapter 6Summary and Outlook

Schmitz, Bernhard

Pages: 175 –196

[In the previous chapters we approached art-of-living from a scientific view: We introduced the concept of art-of-living, developed a questionnaire, analyzed the relationships to other important constructs (especially well-being, flourishing and personality), focused on studying art-of-living in...

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