{"id":19536,"date":"2024-08-19T19:58:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T19:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/indifference\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:47:00","slug":"indifference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/indifference\/","title":{"rendered":"Apathy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>a state and symptom characterized by a loss of interest in things or events that usually bring joy or engagement; a reduction or absence of aspirations toward anything; indifference to ongoing events and surrounding people; emotional suppression and lack of motivation to achieve goals. Apathy, as a symptom, may indicate the development of a mental disorder or a neurodegenerative disease. It is more common in adolescents and elderly individuals. Apathy is very similar to depression, and sometimes these conditions are difficult to distinguish, although apathy itself is a symptom of depression. In combination with lack of will, it constitutes an apatho-abulic syndrome; in combination with adynamia, it constitutes an apatho-adynamic syndrome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a state and symptom characterized by a loss of interest in things or events that usually bring joy or engagement; a reduction or absence of aspirations toward anything; indifference to ongoing events and surrounding people; emotional suppression and lack of motivation to achieve goals. Apathy, as a symptom, may indicate the development of a mental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-individual-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80536,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19536\/revisions\/80536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}