Suffering in Loneliness Among People – about the Loneliness of a Child in Modern Family Cover Image

Cierpienie w samotności wśród ludzi – o samotności dziecka we współczesnej rodzinie
Suffering in Loneliness Among People – about the Loneliness of a Child in Modern Family

Author(s): Marta Kowalewska, Anna Goździalska, Jerzy Jaśkiewicz
Subject(s): Psychology, Social psychology and group interaction, Family and social welfare
Published by: Oficyna Wydawnicza KA AFM
Keywords: loneliness of the child; family; feeling the loneliness; suffering;

Summary/Abstract: Loneliness is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon, defined on different plains. Loneliness can concern the man in every phase of his development, and depending on the period at which he will turn up, takes different forms. Usually is associated with negative sensations as sadness, sorrow, longing, nostalgia or also an anger are usually being associated with negative experiences, but also is combined with pleasant feelings, as a feeling of release or the rest. Increased states of the loneliness are difficult and can influence functioning of the adult man negatively. In humans, the adult loneliness is sometimes a choice, not a necessity. The child loneliness is always a negative overtone. The modern society is characterized with high degree of the egoism. With effect of it there is a drastic height of the number of children going the severe loneliness through amongst persons formally among others closest, in the family. Against this background a defi ciency of the psychological contact of children with parents appears. The awareness of the universality of the phenomenon of leaving children alone in families is overwhelming. The factors that cause the feeling of loneliness a child include: lack of emotional ties between the child and the parents in the upbringing of autocracy and the use of inappropriate methods of education, improper system of penalties and rewards in the educational process. Factor in the feeling of loneliness can be a child’s illness or disability, dysfunctional family, a family history of pathological phenomena, parents addiction cause an increase in feelings of loneliness in all areas of a child – mainly in the emotional and social. The diversity of interactions and situations that makes family life contributes to the feeling of subjective feeling of loneliness children among the people.

  • Issue Year: XIII/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 95-103
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish