The Meaning of Kindness / / Joanna Szafran and Anna Cwojdzinska.

• VerfasserIn: Szafran, Joanna,; Cwojdzińska, Anna,
• TeilnehmendeR: Cwojdzińska, Anna,
• Place / Publishing House: Paderborn, Germany : : Brill Deutschland GmbH,, [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (151 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Preface: Semantics. Polish and English understandings of the word "kindness" -- Introduction -- Part one: Around Meaning. Kindness in philosophy - the philosophy of kindness -- Kindness: From the Classics to the Present - Subjective Review -- Kindness in Polish Moral Philosophy - Inspirations of the Enlightenment -- The Evolutionary and Biological Determinants of Kindness -- The Biological Basis of Social Behavior: Theory of Mind and Empathy as Catalysts for Kindness -- Kindness as a Form of Social Responsibility - Toward a Culture of Care -- Kindness as an attitude towards the world - the example of the philosophy of Buddhism -- Kindness in Contemporary Psychological Research - The Empirical Evidence and Clinical Practice -- Part two: Around Meaning. Conceptualization of Kindness - Research Project -- Research Methodology -- Justification of the Research Problem -- Aim and Main Problem of the Study -- Research Plan and Stages -- Operationalization of Variables -- Kindness survey - open-ended questions -- Kindness survey - closed questions -- Study Procedure, Survey organization, and Sampling -- Testing procedure -- Selection of participants for the study -- Organization of the research -- Scheme of Statistical Data Analysis and Methods of Statistical Description -- Methods of statistical description -- Methods for assessing the significance of differences -- Methods for assessing the strength of the relationship between variables -- Qualitative analysis methods -- Methods for managing missing data -- Analysis and Conclusions of the Study -- Characteristics of the Study Sample -- Analysis of Quantitative Data -- Kindness vs. caring -- Kind behavior -- Sources of kindness -- Kindness-shaping environments -- Motivations for kindness -- Benefits of kindness -- The effects of kindness.

Giver's experiences -- Recipient's experiences -- Kindness is … - Analysis of Qualitative Data -- Word-level analyses -- Code-level analyses -- Research Summary -- Closing remarks -- References -- List of Figures and Tables.