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Art-of-LivingSummary and Outlook

Art-of-Living: Summary and Outlook [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 daily life using diaries and, finally, we described trainings to increase art-of-living for different samples and with different methods. In this chapter we want to broaden our view. First, we present exemplary art-of-living strategies found in the arts applied by famous people. Although examples for art-of-living strategies can be found in many art forms like movies, theater plays or novels, within the scope of this book we focus on autobiographies as they allow the analysis of the original phrasing of the authors and need not be interpreted too much. For each one of five well-known persons, namely Pavarotti, the Dalai-Lama, Clapton, Thoreau and Mandela, we give an exemplary strategy they applied art-of-living, being savoring, openness, coping, serenity and self-determined way of living. In the second part we concentrate our research on artists-of-living and study them in greater detail using quantitative and qualitative information by conducting questionnaires as well as interviews. We applied a modified proceeding from the Berlin wisdom study (Baltes and Staudinger 2000) where we asked a sample to nominate experts for art-of-living. This sample nominated a group of persons as artists-of-living. The sample of artists-of-living comprised 40 people from all over of Germany whom we visited at their home. We interviewed them, asked them to rate the art-of-living subscales regarding their importance and realization in their lives and gave them the art-of-living questionnaire. We proved that these nominated persons were really artists-of-living. For this purpose we analyzed the differences between these group of nominated persons and a normal sample which was presented in Chap. 3. They differed significantly in the overall art-of-living and most subscales. We presented statements from their interviews which were interesting examples for our concept of art-of-living but also contained aspects which gave hints for ways to enrich our approach. The last part of the chapter summarizes the results of the book and shows perspectives for future research.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Art-of-LivingSummary and Outlook

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 63)
Schmitz, Bernhard
Art-of-Living — Sep 30, 2016
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
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978-3-319-45323-1
Pages
175 –196
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-45324-8_6
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[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 daily life using diaries and, finally, we described trainings to increase art-of-living for different samples and with different methods. In this chapter we want to broaden our view. First, we present exemplary art-of-living strategies found in the arts applied by famous people. Although examples for art-of-living strategies can be found in many art forms like movies, theater plays or novels, within the scope of this book we focus on autobiographies as they allow the analysis of the original phrasing of the authors and need not be interpreted too much. For each one of five well-known persons, namely Pavarotti, the Dalai-Lama, Clapton, Thoreau and Mandela, we give an exemplary strategy they applied art-of-living, being savoring, openness, coping, serenity and self-determined way of living. In the second part we concentrate our research on artists-of-living and study them in greater detail using quantitative and qualitative information by conducting questionnaires as well as interviews. We applied a modified proceeding from the Berlin wisdom study (Baltes and Staudinger 2000) where we asked a sample to nominate experts for art-of-living. This sample nominated a group of persons as artists-of-living. The sample of artists-of-living comprised 40 people from all over of Germany whom we visited at their home. We interviewed them, asked them to rate the art-of-living subscales regarding their importance and realization in their lives and gave them the art-of-living questionnaire. We proved that these nominated persons were really artists-of-living. For this purpose we analyzed the differences between these group of nominated persons and a normal sample which was presented in Chap. 3. They differed significantly in the overall art-of-living and most subscales. We presented statements from their interviews which were interesting examples for our concept of art-of-living but also contained aspects which gave hints for ways to enrich our approach. The last part of the chapter summarizes the results of the book and shows perspectives for future research.]

Published: Sep 30, 2016

Keywords: Positive Psychology; Corporal Punishment; Satisfaction With Life Scale; Spearman Rank Order Correlation; Subjective Happiness Scale

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