Modern psychological research of laziness: does it exist or not?

In modern psychological science, there is no generally accepted understanding of laziness as a psychological phenomenon, which determines the relevance of the analysis of current research in the psychology of laziness. We discussed the concept of “laziness” and differentiation of the psychological term from the everyday phenomenon. The analysis of publications of recent years shows that modern psychological approaches to the study of laziness are characterized by a wide variety of theoretical research positions: laziness is viewed as a property, state, process, trait. The use of “laziness” as a non-operationalized variable (i. e. predominantly in a mundane psychological sense) by some academics contributes to the uncertainty of research findings and the distortion of reality. Using the existence of a scientific term in a commonplace sense, determined by the subjective choice of the researcher, leads to a lack of comparability of “laziness” variables in different works and a low level of generalization of conclusions about mental effects of this phenomenon. It is shown that the substantiation of personal and social productivity of laziness and idleness, the study of resource possibilities of this phenomenon reflect the growing trend of modern psychology of laziness.