Dismay

Affected or affected has several meanings:

• originally being (directly) affected by a measure or process,
• a sense of moral sadness and compassionate compassion or similar emotion triggered by a person's testimony or by a historical or current situation , or
• a (sometimes emotion-free) professional connection of a person or a group ( company , office department, etc.) to a cause or event . In this context, the legal-political statement is concerned in its own right , which is known to lead to abstention from voting or participation ( bias ).

In all three meanings, a distinction can be made between subjective and objective as well as between individual and collective concern.

Above all as a subjective, emotional concern, it is the subject of philosophical, literary and pedagogical discourses and is seen on the one hand as a positive impulse for motivation and a link to participation, on the other hand, as conceit.

The people who are affected are often referred to as affected or they refer to themselves as such.

literature

• Cora Stephan : The cult of dismay. A political moral story. Rowohlt 1994
• Stefan Hoffmann, Julia Schlicht and Claudia Kurz: Affliction as a trigger for conscious consumption. Publishing house Dr. Kovac 2009

Web links

Wiktionary: Affection  - Explanation of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations