title: Engagement with beauty: appreciating natural, artistic, and moral beauty.
abstract: The Engagement With Beauty Scale (EBS), designed from the aesthetics of I. Kant (1790/1987), G. W. F. Hegel (ca. 1835/1993), and T. Aquinas (ca. 1260/1947) and the psychological work of J. Haidt (J. Haidt & D. Keltner, 2004), measures engagement with natural, artistic, and moral beauty. In Studies 1 and 2, the authors describe scale construction, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, internal consistency, and temporal stability. In Studies 1 and 2, the authors also establish concurrent validity with the Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence subscale of the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (C. Peterson & M. E. P. Seligman, 2004), the Gratitude, Resentment, and Appreciation Test (P. C. Watkins, K. Woodward, T. Stone, & R. L. Kolts, 2003), and the Spiritual Transcendence Scale (R. L. Piedmont, 2004). In Study 3, the authors used the EBS Artistic Beauty subscale to differentiate students engaged in the arts from those who were not.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, ID 83501, USA. diessner@lcsc.edu
authors.forename: Rhett
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Diessner
authors.forename: Rebecca C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Solom
authors.forename: Nellie K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Frost
authors.forename: Lucas
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Parsons
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Davidson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001154:Art; D001290:Attitude; D001504:Beauty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009014:Morals; D012938:Social Perception