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Artful living : examining the relationship between artistic practice and subjective wellbeing across three national surveys / Steven J. Tepper, with contributions from Blake Sisk [and four others]
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Tepper, Steven J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts and society--United States.
- Arts and society.
- Well-being--United States.
- Well-being.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Report/Whitepaper
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (31 pages)
- Other Title:
- Examining the relationship between artistic practice and subjective wellbeing across three national surveys
- Place of Publication:
- [Nashville, Tenn.] The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, Vanderbilt University, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "February 16, 2014."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 28-31).
- Copyright 2014 The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University.
- North America / United States
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (NEA, viewed Dec. 5, 2019).
- OCLC:
- 936509062
- Publisher Number:
- https://www.issuelab.org/permalink/resource/18182
- Access Restriction:
- Open access content Open access content
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