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On the Function of Boredom [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2013 Boredom is frequently considered inconsequential and has received relatively little research attention. We argue that boredom has important implications for human functioning, based on emotion theory and empirical evidence.
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Differential associations of parents’ ADHD tendencies, boredom proneness, and parenting styles with children’s ADHD tendencies and boredom proneness [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThis study examined how parents’ attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) tendencies, boredom proneness, and parenting styles are associated with their children’s ADHD tendencies and boredom proneness, which have been scarcely studied empirically.
Tianyi Zhang, Yuji Ikegaya, Izumi Uehara
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Behavioral Sciences, 2022 Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, studies have demonstrated increases in boredom and its negative impact on mental health. This cross-sectional study examines state and trait boredom at four different points of the pandemic using an online sample of ...
Emily R. Weiss +3 more
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Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Functional accounts of boredom propose that boredom serves as an impartial signal to change something about the current situation, which should give rise to adaptive and maladaptive behaviour alike.
Maik Bieleke +3 more
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Behavioral Sciences, 2022 Boredom is a ubiquitous human experience that most people try to avoid feeling. People who are prone to boredom experience negative consequences. This study examined the impact of individual differences in the ability to entertain the self (the internal ...
Van Dang, Heather C. Lench
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Boredom coping in the context of secondary education
Pedagogická Orientace, 2022 The article concerns the problematics of the boredom experience and especially boredom coping in Czech secondary school students (n = 460). The relationships between, on the one hand, reported boredom frequency, various aspects of state boredom ...
Denisa Urbanova, Isabella Pavelkova
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Behavioral Sciences, 2022 Boredom is a negative emotion commonly experienced in mundane situations. Boredom is thought to arise from a mismatch between individuals and their expectation for environmental stimulation.
Alana J. Anderson +3 more
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Academic boredom(s): a person-centered investigation
Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 Should we refer to boredom or boredoms? Research on the emotion of boredom sets itself apart from studies on other emotions by posing the question: is boredom a singular concept or does it have multiple facets?
Dirk Tempelaar, Alexandra Niculescu
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University Students' Multidimensional State Boredom and Strategies to Cope with Classroom Boredom
Journal of Language and Education, 2021 This study sought to examine how university students' state boredom dimensions (i.e., disengagement, high arousal, low arousal, inattention, and time perception) and their boredom coping strategies (i.e., cognitive approach, behavioral approach ...
Mehdi Solhi
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Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 We don't know almost nothing about boredom. Even though the experience of boredom has been part of our daily life for centuries, we are far from being clear about what its suffering consists of, what its main causes and consequences are, or how we can ...
Josefa Ros Velasco
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