Idle Person

An Idle Person is a person who measures highly on an idleness measure.

Context:
- It can be applied to a person who attends to significant amount of entertainment, such as Video Game Overuse (video gaming).
See: Lazy Person, Idleness, Idle Machine.

References

(Dorn & Hanson, 2019) ⇒ David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson. (2019). “When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men.” American Economic Review: Insights, 1(2).
- QUOTE: ... The heart of the Wilson hypothesis is that adverse shocks to blue-collar employment catalyze a broader deterioration in adult social function. We test for such consequences with three non-market measures: idleness, absence, and mortality. Idleness is the state of being neither employed nor in school; we focus on the ages 18-25, which cover the transition between school and work. (Aguiar, Bils, Charles and Hurst (2017) document that young men devote more time to video games and recreational computer use, while working fewer hours) …

(Immordino-Yangelen et al., 2012) ⇒ Mary H. Immordino-Yangelen, Joanna A. Christodoulou, and Vanessa Singh. (2012). “Rest is Not Idleness: Implications of the Brain’s Default Mode for Human Development and Education.” Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7(4).
- QUOTE: ... It is argued that the development of some socioemotional skills may be vulnerable to disruption by environmental distraction, for example, from certain educational practices or overuse of social media. The authors hypothesize that high environmental attention demands may bias youngsters to focus on the concrete, physical, and immediate aspects of social situations and self, which may be more compatible with external attention. They coin the term constructive internal reflection and advocate educational practices that promote effective balance between external attention and internal reflection. …