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Personality and boredom proneness in the prediction of creativity and curiosity
Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2016Abstract The present study investigated the contributions of an overall personality taxonomy (HEXACO) and boredom proneness to creativity and curiosity. Past research has indicated that creativity and curiosity are related processes that are informed by personality variables.
John D Eastwood
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Proneness to Boredom and Risk Behaviors During Adolescents’ Free Time
Psychological Reports, 2017 As a clinical condition, boredom is an emotional state, widespread among young people, characterized by unpleasant feelings, lack of motivation, and low physiological arousal in which the level of stimulation is perceived as unsatisfactorily low. Boredom is an important emotional state due to its spread among young people.
Biolcati, Roberta +2 more
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Boredom proneness, or trait boredom, occupies a prominent position within the scientific study of boredom. In this chapter, we review the role of this construct as a correlate and predictor of relevant outcomes, its operationalizations and measurements ...
Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg +3 more
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Boredom proneness, interoception, and emotional eating
Appetite, 2022Emotional eating is associated with weight gain and difficulty losing weight during weight loss interventions. Theoretical and empirical work suggest boredom may be an important predictor of problematic eating behaviors. Yet, little work has examined the role of boredom in emotional eating.
Erica, Ahlich, Diana, Rancourt
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Current Psychology, 2021 Numerous studies have discussed the relationship between boredom proneness and mobile phone addiction based on cross-sectional data. However, the direction of the link between these two constructs remains unknown.
Guoliang Yu
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Boredom Proneness and Psychosocial Development
The Journal of Psychology, 1999The effect of boredom proneness as measured by the Boredom Proneness Scale (R. F. Farmer & N. D. Sundberg, 1986) on college students' psychosocial development was investigated via the Student Developmental Task and Lifestyle Assessment (SDTLA; R. B. Winston, T. K. Miller, & J. S. Prince, 1995). Low boredom-prone students had significantly higher scores
J D, Watt, S J, Vodanovich
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The Boredom Prone Personality: A Multitrait-Multimethod Approach
Journal of Personality Assessment, 2022The present investigation reports the convergent and discriminant validity coefficients for two versions of Farmer and Sundberg's (Journal of Personality Assessment, 50(1), 4-17, 1986) boredom proneness scale. Boredom proneness, a trait that refers to an enduring tendency to disengage from the environment, has been neglected by the field of psychology ...
Amber A. Fultz +2 more
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ARE PROCRASTINATORS PRONE TO BOREDOM?
Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 1999Undergraduate students (N = 146) completed both the Boredom Proneness Scale (BPS) and the Procrastination Scale (PS). A one way MANOVA indicated that individuals high in procrastination possessed significantly high overall boredom proneness scores. Also, high procrastinators had significantly greater scores on four of the five BPS subscales labeled ...
Stephen J. Vodanovich, Deborah E. Rupp
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Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1995
The present study examined the effects of instruction type and boredom proneness (BP) on vigilance performance, workload, and boredom. Subjects completed the Boredom Proneness Scale and were assigned to high and low groups based on their scores. They then monitored a VDT for critical signals.
David A. Sawin, Mark W. Scerbo
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The present study examined the effects of instruction type and boredom proneness (BP) on vigilance performance, workload, and boredom. Subjects completed the Boredom Proneness Scale and were assigned to high and low groups based on their scores. They then monitored a VDT for critical signals.
David A. Sawin, Mark W. Scerbo
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Boredom Proneness and the Need for Cognition
Journal of Research in Personality, 1994Abstract The effect of need for cognition on boredom proneness scores among 214 undergraduates was investigated using the short form of the Need For Cognition Scale (Cacioppo, Petty, & Kao, 1984) and Farmer and Sundberg′s (1986) Boredom Proneness Scale.
John D. Watt, Michael J. Blanchard
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