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Artful living : examining the relationship between artistic practice and subjective wellbeing across three national surveys by Steven J Tepper (Author), Blake Sisk (Donald Blake), Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy (Vanderbilt University) (Issuing body), National Endowment for the Arts.

Publication Date: 2014

Over the past few decades, elected officials and policy leaders have increasingly focused on "quality of life issues," seeking ways to not only create jobs and grow the economy but also to help people both strengthen family and community life and advance health and happiness. The arts have a role to play in this new agenda. In 2011, the National Endowment for the Arts collaborated with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to host a convening examining the relationship between the arts and wellbeing. From that meeting emerged an interagency task force involving 13 federal agencies and departments with the goal to encourage more research on how the arts help people develop their full potential at all stages of life. Rocco Landesman helped frame the new initiative when he remarked, "How do the arts help build us as a people and as individuals? We share a fundamental mission -- how to improve the quality of life. The arts are central to human development". This report represents an initial exploration of the thesis that the arts are essential to a high quality of life. Using three national datasets, we examine the correlation between artistic practice and wellbeing among a representative national sample of adults, a sample of undergraduate seniors, and a sample of former arts graduates. Overall, we find strong support that artistic practice is associated with higher levels of life satisfaction, a more positive self image, less anxiety about change, a more tolerant and open approach to diverse others, and, in some cases, less focus on materialistic values and the acquisition of goods.

 

Cover ArtSubjective well-being : measuring happiness, suffering, and other dimensions of experience by Arthur A Stone (Éditeur intellectuel.) C J Mackie (Éditeur intellectuel.) National Center for Biotechnology Information (États-Unis) National Research Council (États-Unis). Panel on Measuring Subjective Well-Being in a Policy-Relevant Framework (Organisme de publication.).

Publication Date: 2013-12-18

"Could gathering data on subjective well-being help governments and organizations develop policies that better serve the needs of their constituents? This book explores that question, focusing on the policy value of gauging "experienced well-being": peoples' moment to moment and day to day feelings of pleasure, contentment, pain and other emotions and sensations. This report identifies areas of policy and practice where such data would be useful -- ranging from city planning to custody policy to end-of-life care -- and discusses additional aspects of subjective well-being that are important for policy makers to consider. This report also assesses approaches for gathering these data, identifies surveys that should collect them on an experimental basis, and discusses methodological questions that remain."--[Source inconnue]

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