TITLE:
Boredom and Social Deviant Behavior: An Empirical Study
AUTHORS:
Nicola Malizia
KEYWORDS:
Boredom, BPS, Deviant Behavior, Deviance, Society
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Applied Sociology,
Vol.8 No.2,
February
13,
2018
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper was the analysis of the relationship between boredom and deviance behavior; this is a field not completely explored by the sociology of deviance, despite the increase in alarm due to the increase in: deviant behavior by young people and crimes committed by groups. After a brief presentation of the most important contribution in literature, to deepen this issue, we use data collected from a survey using as principal instrument, the Boredom Proneness Scale, BPS, (Farmer & Sundberg, 1986) to identify the possible forms of prevention to be adopted in family, social and institutional context, in order to not compromise, immediately or in the long term, social, physical and psychological young person well-being. To test the evidence, it was decided to implement a model, in order to describe and analyze empirical phenomena, introducing a statistical relationship, since it is not possible to know an exact relationship between variables. The model results allow to observe a direct relationship between the BPS and variables analyzed.