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Private self-awareness, state boredom, and snack purchases desire: the moderating role of self-control

Cogent Psychology
Existing literature suggests a potential link between private self-awareness and purchase decisions, though the evidence supporting this claim remains limited.
Bin Peng, Nuo Liu, Kunying Zhang, Sihua Xu   +3 more
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Job boredom as an antecedent of four states of mental health: life satisfaction, positive functioning, anxiety, and depression symptoms among young employees – a latent change score approach

BMC Public Health
Background Job boredom has been generally associated with poorer self-rated health but the evidence is mainly cross-sectional and there is a lack of a holistic mental health approach.
Jie Li, Janne Kaltiainen, Jari J. Hakanen   +2 more
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Investigating the Change in State Boredom After Completion of the Attentional Blink Paradigm

, 2021
Boredom is defined as an individual’s feeling of dissatisfaction with surroundings causing disengagement and discontentment with the present. State boredom is specifically boredom in the present moment, and has been theorized to be caused by attentional ...
Francis, Julia
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From Quest for Significance to Social Media Addiction: The Mediating Role of Boredom and the Moderating Role of Age in a Spanish Sample

Psychiatry International
(1) Background: Social media addiction (SMA) is conceptualized as a behavioral addiction linked to emotional dysregulation. This study investigates whether multidimensional state boredom mediates the relationship between the quest for significance and ...
Ginevra Tagliaferri, Clarissa Cricenti, Andrea Civera-Antony, Carlos González-Manzanares, Manuel Martí-Vilar   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk Taking and Impulsivity in Boredom: an EEG investigation [PDF]

, 2020
Previous research on boredom suggest it function as an important self-regulatory signal, indicating that the current state of the environment carries opportunity-costs and therefore driving the need to explore alternative activities.
Yakobi, Ofir, Danckert, James
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The good of boredom [PDF]

, 2018
I argue that the state of boredom (i.e., the transitory and non-pathological experience of boredom) should be understood to be a regulatory psychological state that has the capacity to promote our well-being by contributing to personal growth and to the ...
Elpidorou, Andreas
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A Universal Nucleoside‐to‐Nucleoside‐5′‐Triphosphate Enzyme Cascade Driven by Polyphosphate

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, EarlyView.
Nucleoside‐5′‐triphosphates (NTPs) are essential components for the generation of nucleic acids, yet their chemical synthesis is hindered by the low yield of nucleoside phosphorylation. Here, we present a universal, two‐enzyme nucleoside‐to‐NTP cascade that is driven by polyphosphate.
Jonathan P. Suess, Nicolas V. Cornelissen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Boredom the literary history of a state of mind

, 1995
As malady or inspiration, boredom looms large in our culture. Forever egging the writer on to new feats of interest, new forms of poetry, new, more engrossing ideas and creations, boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination.
Spacks, Patricia Meyer 1929-
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The Inspiration of Boredom: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Boredom and Creativity [PDF]

, 2015
The present thesis investigated the novel question of whether boredom could inspire creativity through two studies, the first focusing on trait creativity and the second on creative performance.
Hunter, Jennifer Ann
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Inter‐microscope comparability of dental microwear texture data obtained from different optical profilometers: Part I Reproducibility of diet inference using different instruments

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has become a well‐established method for dietary inference and reconstruction in both extant and extinct mammals and other tetrapods. As the volume of available data continues to grow, researchers could benefit from combining published data from various studies to perform meta‐analyses.
Daniela E. Winkler, Mugino O. Kubo
wiley   +1 more source