The Meaning of Kindness

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-8471-1680-6
Verlag: V&R unipress

Buch, Englisch, 149 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 341 g

Scholarly reflection on kindness raises a variety of issues and perspectives. In order to consider the impact of kindness on various aspects of human existence, it is first necessary to give it a concrete meaning. This seemingly simple task turns out to be quite challenging. The prevailing definitional chaos in the literature, the lack of consensus on basic terminological assumptions, indicates a deficit in the theoretical understanding of the concept of kindness and, perhaps more importantly, poses a problem when attempting to verify existing empirical findings, raising doubts about the generalizability of the conclusions and possible comparative studies. The book is an attempt to clarify the definition of the phenomenon of kindness. It is the result of the first research of its kind and carried out on such a scale in Poland. The main aim of the study was to determine how Polish youth understands the concept of kindness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szafran, Joanna

Cwojdzinska, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Cwojdzinska, Anna
Dr Anna Cwojdzinska, a graduate of Psychology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests include kindness, emotion regulation with a focus on the dyadic perspective, and gender studies.

Cwojdzinska, Anna
Dr Anna Cwojdzinska, a graduate of Psychology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests include kindness, emotion regulation with a focus on the dyadic perspective, and gender studies.

Szafran, Joanna
Prof Dr Joanna Szafran, psychologist, educator, trainer, is Head of the Educational Discourse Research Laboratory at the Faculty of Educational Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Her research interests include attitude formation, prosociality and kindness, developmental and applied psychology, and educational leadership.