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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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Boredom and Media Multitasking

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Media multitasking entails simultaneously engaging in multiple tasks when at least one of the tasks involves media (e.g., online activities and streaming videos).
Allison C. Drody, Brandon C. W. Ralph, James Danckert, Daniel Smilek   +3 more
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EFL Teachers’ Immediacy and Professional Commitment on Students’ Boredom: A Review of Literature

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Boredom is a psychological phenomenon that is defined as a state of hatred or incompatibility with any kind of repetitive experience in situations where liberation from instability is not possible and has several consequences.
Wen Qin
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The state of boredom: Frustrating or depressing? [PDF]

Motivation and Emotion, 2018
Boredom is a prevalent emotion with potential negative consequences. Previous research has associated boredom with outcomes indicating both high and low levels of arousal and activation. In the present study we propose that the situational context is an important factor that may determine whether boredom relates to high versus low arousal/activation ...
Edwin A. J. van Hooft, Madelon L. M. van Hooff   +1 more
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The Effect of “Novelty Input” and “Novelty Output” on Boredom During Home Quarantine in the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Effects of Trait Creativity

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Governments have adopted strict home quarantine measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. A monotonous, barren, and under-stimulating environment can cause state boredom, and people often deal with boredom via novelty-seeking behavior.
Zheng Liang, Zheng Liang, Qingbai Zhao, Qingbai Zhao, Zhijin Zhou, Zhijin Zhou, Quanlei Yu, Quanlei Yu, Songqing Li, Songqing Li, Shi Chen, Shi Chen   +11 more
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Fear, anxiety, and boredom [PDF]

, 2020
Phenomenology's central insight is that affectivity is not an inconsequential or contingent characteristic of human existence. Emotions, moods, sentiments, and feelings are not accidents of human existence. They do not happen to happen to us.
Elpidorou, Andreas, Freeman, Lauren
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Contemporary myths on boredom

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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Experienced entropy drives choice behavior in a boring decision-making task

Scientific Reports, 2022
Boredom has been defined as an aversive mental state that is induced by the disability to engage in satisfying activity, most often experienced in monotonous environments.
Johannes P.-H. Seiler, Ohad Dan, Oliver Tüscher, Yonatan Loewenstein, Simon Rumpel   +4 more
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Is boredom an animal welfare concern? [PDF]

, 2018
Boredom, while often casually attributed to non-human animals by both laypeople and scientists, has received little empirical study in this context.
Meagher, Rebecca
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Environmental enrichment reduces signs of boredom in caged mink [PDF]

, 2012
Animals housed in impoverished cages are often labelled 'bored'. They have also been called 'apathetic' or 'depressed', particularly when profoundly inactive. However, these terms are rarely operationally defined and validated. As a negative state caused
A Stolba, AJ Nimon, BM Spruijt, CD Fitzgibbon, CM Dwyer, D Gunn, D Morris, D Paquette, DGM Wood-Gush, DGM Wood-Gush, DJ Samuels, DJ Stairs, FA Henn, G Michel, Georgia J. Mason, GJ Mason, H Anisman, H Glover, IAS Olsson, J Malmkvist, J Malmkvist, J Mononen, JA Dallaire, JA Dallaire, JA Hogan, JD Eastwood, JE Bolhuis, JE Joseph, JE van der Harst, JJ Cooper, JM Koolhaas, JW Roberti, K Dahlborn, KN Morgan, M Díez-León, M Turner, M Zuckerman, MB Harris, MBM Bracke, MH Robinson, MJ Renner, MJ Renner, Nei Moreira, P Hartley, P Pliner, P Sockeel, P Willner, PJ Bushnell, PJ Lang, PW Gold, R Mitchell, RB Jones, RC Bolles, RC Newberry, RD Kirkden, Rebecca K. Meagher, RK Meagher, RS Marin, RS Marin, RS Marin, S Carton, SF Maier, SL Klein, WS Gilmer, Y Benjamini, Y Benjamini, YK Goldberg   +66 more
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