1、Research ReportJOIE D.ACOSTA,LIA PAK,DEVIN McCARTHY,RHIANNA C.ROGERS,WILLIAM MARCELLINO,MAYA RABINOWITZ,ISABELLE GONZLEZ,THEO JACOBS,LEAH DIONStitching the Threads TogetherA Cross-Disciplinary Literature Review on Youth Arts Engagement and Well-Being2SummaryPurposePromoting the well-being of all you

2、th today can lead to productive,successful,and healthy adults and the health of society tomorrow.But promoting the well-being of all youth is not simple:It requires a multifaceted set of pathways and strategies that are still being defined in the research literature.In particular,the literature on h

3、ow arts engage-ment promotes child and youth well-being remains fragmented across many disciplinary areas and multidisciplinary fields.More-efficient and more-frequent synthesis of the literature is needed to illuminate these pathways and strate-gies across disciplinary areas and multidisciplinary f

4、ields to understand and support youth well-being.Recognizing the critical need to bridge disciplinary and multidisciplinary fields,we aimed to consolidate this dispersed evidence base by briefly summarizing the definitions of youth well-being and the dimensions that contribute to it examining how yo

5、uth arts engagement has been defined and measured in the context of well-being identifying mechanisms,unique to and common across well-being dimensions and disciplines,by which various art forms facilitate youth well-being and how these mechanisms have been measured.Key FindingsResearch studies have

6、 found that arts engagement is an effective way to promote well-being.However,our review found that the literature on arts and youth well-being is not guided by a common framework and thus remains frag-mented(approached differently by discipline,theoretical orientation,and level of rigor).Our review