Psychologiczne aspekty tatuowania się
Psychological aspects of getting tattooed

Summary/Abstract: Tattooing was practiced in almost every human community. Very often, its functions and the motivations behind it varied significantly. After a long period of negative stigmatization, getting tattooed has become fashionable in the last decade. The purpose of this article is to collect the available results of studies on the phenomenon of tattooing. After a brief introduction, subsequent paragraphs deal with the motivational determinants of undertaking such practices and the relationship between tattooing and self-mutilation. This paper also reports studies focused on the personality traits of people who get tattooed as well as on the relationship between tattooing and identity. A separately discussed issue is the role of tattoos in individual identity projects as well as the impact tattoos have on the sense of group identity. In addition, attempts were made to raise new research questions.

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