High state boredom vastly affects psychiatric inpatients and predicts their treatment duration [PDF]
Translational Psychiatry, 2023 Boredom is a ubiquitous, aversive human experience typically elicited by low information and monotony. Boredom can occur either as a transient mental state that prompts individuals to adapt their behavior to avoid monotony or as a temporally stable trait,
Johannes P.-H. Seiler +3 more
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Effect and Mechanisms of State Boredom on Consumers’ Livestreaming Addiction [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 With the rapid development of livestreaming marketing in China, consumers spend an increasing amount of time watching and purchasing on the platform, which shows a trend of livestreaming addiction.
Nan Zhang, Jian Li
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State Boredom Partially Accounts for Gender Differences in Novel Lexicon Learning [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Gender plays an important role in various aspects of second language acquisition, including lexicon learning. Many studies have suggested that compared to males, females are less likely to experience boredom, one of the frequently experienced ...
Hua Wang +11 more
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Validation of a German version of the Boredom Proneness Scale and the Multidimensional State Boredom Scale [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe scientific interest in boredom is growing over the past decades. Boredom has not only been linked to symptoms of psychopathology, but also shows a remarkable effect on individual behavior under healthy conditions. Current characterizations of boredom
Katharina Zerr +3 more
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Boredom in Adolescence: Validation of the Italian Version of the Multidimensional State Boredom Scale (MSBS) in Adolescents [PDF]
Children, 2021 Boredom in adolescence is often underestimated, although it may be the sign of a profound unease or be associated with psychological disorders. Given the complexity of the construct of boredom and its increasing prevalence among adolescents in recent ...
Andrea Spoto +5 more
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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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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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Psychological distress and state boredom during the COVID-19 outbreak in China: the role of meaning in life and media use [PDF]
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2020 Background Epidemics are associated with increased burden of psychological distress. However, the role of boredom on mental health during epidemic periods has seldom been explored.
Miao Chao +4 more
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Boredom-like states in mink and their behavioural correlates: a replicate study [PDF]
Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2017 Scientists and laypeople have long expressed concern that animals in non-enriched, unchanging environments might experience boredom. However, this had attracted little empirical study: the state is difficult to assess without verbal self-reports, and ...
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Validation of the Spanish version of the Multidimensional State Boredom Scale (MSBS). [PDF]
Health Qual Life Outcomes, 2015 Boredom, which is a common problem in the general population, has been associated with several psychiatric disorders. The Multidimensional State Boredom Scale (MSBS) was developed, based on a theoretically and empirically grounded definition of boredom, to assess this construct.
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