Overview
- Is the first to study art-of-living from a psychological perspective
- Describes ways to enhance art-of-living and well-being
- Presents a unique instrument to measure art-of-living
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 63)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
This volume examines the questions of what constitutes a good life and how one can achieve happiness and well-being, and analyses different ways in which people can strive for a good life. First, it presents an overview on important concepts in psychology that are related to living a good life. Then, a new approach is introduced: the concept of art-of-living as a holistic way to reach happiness. Empirical studies are reported involving a questionnaire for measuring art-of-living, and the validity of the questionnaire is demonstrated with respect to a wide range of concepts. In addition, the volume provides results from empirical studies, showing that, and how, art-of-living and happiness can be enhanced. Several intervention studies are described in detail, which have been performed with different groups of subjects, including pupils, university students and employees. Also, results of interviews are summarized, which were held with people who had been nominatedas exemplary artists-of-living. The volume concludes with a description of art-of-living in autobiographies, and presents suggestions for further research with respect to art-of-living.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
He studied mathematics at the university of Düsseldorf and psychology at the University of Technology (TU) Berlin. Both studies he finished with a diploma.
He got his doctoral degree at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and his habilitation at the TU Berlin. He worked for more than 20 years at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development in Berlin, former directors P.M. Roeder, Paul B. Baltes and J. Baumert.
The research of B. Schmitz deals with trainings in self-regulation, diaries and time-series analyses and, now with positive psychology, especially with art-of-living.
He published numerous articles and books about time-series and self-regulation. He is member of the editorial board of “Metacognition and Learning” and “Learning and Instruction”. He was for four years editor of themost important German psychological journal “Psychologische Rundschau”.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Art-of-Living
Book Subtitle: A Concept to Enhance Happiness
Authors: Bernhard Schmitz
Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45324-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45323-1Published: 10 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83267-8Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45324-8Published: 29 September 2016
Series ISSN: 1387-6570
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 196
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations