Nuda. Ujęcie psychologiczne i humanistyczne

Boredom. A Psychological and Humanistic Approach

A broad approach to the subject of boredom, susceptibility to boredom and the state of being bored from a psychological, philosophical, pedagogic, sociological, theological and psychiatric perspective. The author shows terms, theories and the typologies of boredom, discusses the methods of measuring the state of being bored, examines boredom as a quality and describes its frequency. He reflects on the negative consequences of chronic boredom as well as the beneficial ones of situational boredom. He presents the results of his own research on boredom in Poland in the psychological and sociodemographic aspect and ponders on the theories about the internal structure of the notion of boredom.

Keywords: psychology of boredom, philosophy of boredom, theories on boredom, types of boredom, measurement of boredom, susceptibility to boredom, melancholy.

Michał H. Chruszczewski – is a habilitated doctor of social sciences at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Warsaw, where he lectures, among others, history of psychological thought.