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The art of aging well: a study of the relationship between recreational arts engagement, general health and mental wellbeing in cohort of Australian older adults. [PDF]

Front Public Health, 2023
IntroductionEvidence of the benefits of arts engagement to community wellbeing has been mounting since the 1990s. However, large scale, quantitative, epidemiological studies of the “arts–healthy aging” relationship, or the types of arts older adults ...
Davies CR, Budgeon CA, Murray K, Hunter M, Knuiman M.   +4 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Extracurricular music and visual arts activities are related to academic performance improvement in school-aged children

npj Science of Learning, 2023
The present longitudinal study examined whether extracurricular activities in the arts and corresponding scores in art classes have a positive association with general academic performance.
Chiaki Ishiguro, Toru Ishihara, Noriteru Morita   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Preferences for group arts therapies: a cross-sectional survey of mental health patients and the general population

BMJ Open, 2021
Objectives The arts therapies include music therapy, dance movement therapy, art therapy and dramatherapy. Preferences for art forms may play an important role in engagement with treatment.
Stefan Priebe, Emma Millard, Emma Medlicott, Jessica Cardona, Catherine Carr   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Who engages in the arts in the United States? A comparison of several types of engagement using data from The General Social Survey

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Engaging in the arts is a health-related behavior that may be influenced by social inequalities. While it is generally accepted that there is a social gradient in traditional arts and cultural activities, such as attending classical music ...
Jessica K. Bone, Feifei Bu, Meg E. Fluharty, Elise Paul, Jill K. Sonke, Daisy Fancourt   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Good Arts, Good Mental Health^®: the effectiveness of an Australian health promotion media campaign in promoting community mental wellbeing via the arts. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Introduction This study describes and evaluates Good Arts, Good Mental Health® (GAGMH), a groundbreaking, population-level, arts-mental health promotion media campaign.
Davies CR, Pescud MT, Clifford R, McGrath R, Thomson A, Jeffrey M, Stoneham M, Pikora T, Wright P, Girdler S, Baldassar L, Clift S.   +11 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Towards a General Theory of Fighting Arts

Physical Activity Review, 2016
Introduction: The fighting arts are an interesting area for researchers from many scientific disciplines around the world. Scientific investigations need to choose appropriate theory, language and methods.
W. Cynarski
semanticscholar   +7 more sources

A Pragmatic Analysis of Fallacies in English Religious Argumentative Discourse

مجلة الآداب, 2022
       Fallacies are common errors in an argument and they undermine the logic of that argument. They obstruct the process of argumentation since they do not contribute to the resolution in difference in opinion. The current study investigates fallacies
Khawla Shukur Mahmood, Sundus Muhsin Ali
doaj   +1 more source

Generative Art with Swarm Landscapes [PDF]

Entropy, 2020
We present a generative swarm art project that creates 3D animations by running a Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm over synthetic landscapes produced by an objective function. Different kinds of functions are explored, including mathematical expressions, Perlin noise-based terrain, and several image-based procedures.
Diogo de Andrade, Nuno Fachada, Carlos M. Fernandes, Agostinho C. Rosa   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Mosaic art as a cultural decorative aspect and contemporary mosaic re-employment

الاكاديمي, 2021
Islamic art is applied art that searches for everything that is useful and beneficial and Both are properties of Islamic art. Islamic art has many well-established elements and styles and pictures that distinguish it from the rest of the arts among those
Mahamed T. ABD AL Abdullah
doaj   +1 more source

Who engages in the arts in the United States? A comparison of three types of engagement using data from the General Social Survey

, 2021
Engaging in the arts is a health-related behavior that may be influenced by social inequalities. While it is generally accepted that there is a social gradient in arts participation, previous studies of arts engagement in the US have not used ...
J. Bone, F. Bu, M. Fluharty, E. Paul, J. Sonke, D. Fancourt   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source