Art-of-Living

Bernhard Schmitz, Prof. Dr., holds a full professorship at the department of psychology of the University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany.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 the most important German psychological journal "Psychologische Rundschau".

Part I. Introduction and Theory.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Advantages of Using the Concept ''Art-of-Living''.- Chapter 2. Theory: Art-of-Living: Philosophical Background, Psychological Concept.- Part II. Development and Validation of a Questionnaire for Measuring Art-of-Living.- Chapter 3. Study 1: Preliminary Combined Qualitative and Quantitative Survey: How do People Think about Art-of-Living.- Chapter 4. Study 2 and 3: A Multidimensional Questionnaire for Measuring Art-of-Living.- Chapter 5. A Questionnaire for Measuring Art-of-Living: A Revised Form.- Chapter 6. Daily Measuring of Art-of-Living.- Chapter 7. A Situational Judgement Test for Measuring Art-of-Living.- Chapter 8. Can Art-of-Living Be Estimated from the Peer Perspective.- Chapter 9. Further Validation.- Part II. Enhancing Art-of-Living and  Happiness.- chapter 10. Interventions Studies: How to enhance Art-of-Living and Happiness.- Part IV. Outlook.-Chapter 11. Artists-of-Living: Interviews with Individuals Who Where Nominated as Artists-of-Living.- Chapter 12. Art-of-Living in Movies, Novels and Dramas.- Chapter 13. Future Research of Art-of-Living.