Highest Happiness: An Analysis of Artists' Peak Experience
Psychological Reports October 1, 1989 Ellen H. Yeagle, Gayle Privette, Frances Y. Dunham
Descriptions of peak experiences collected from 29 exhibiting artists were compared with parallel data from a comparison group of 123 men and women enrolled in university courses in social sciences. Each person narratively described a personal incident of highest happiness, then rated a series of descriptions on Likert-type scales. A multivariate analysis of variance indicated no significant...