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Boredom Prone or Nothing to Do? Distinguishing Between State and Trait Leisure Boredom and Its Association with Substance Use in South African Adolescents [PDF]

Leisure Sciences, 2015
Reducing adolescent substance use is important in South Africa, a developing nation with increasing adolescent substance use, lack of leisure/recreation opportunities, and high rates of adolescent discretionary time. Previous research suggests leisure boredom and adolescent substance use co-occur in this setting.
Elizabeth H Weybright, Linda L Caldwell, Nilam Ram   +2 more
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Boredom and problematic Facebook use in adolescents: What is the relationship considering trait or state boredom? [PDF]

Addictive Behaviors, 2022
Boredom is an unpleasant experience caused by the lack of being engaged in satisfying activities. It can be caused by external circumstances (state boredom, SB) or by individual determinants (trait boredom, TB). Although several studies have attested the impact of boredom on adolescents' risk-taking behaviours, the relationships between boredom and ...
Maria Anna Donati, Carola Beccari, Caterina Primi   +2 more
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Does state boredom cause failures of attention? Examining the relations between trait boredom, state boredom, and sustained attention

Experimental Brain Research, 2016
Boredom is an important personal and social problem, but the phenomena itself remains poorly understood. Recent work has shown that boredom is highly related to attention, and that this relationship may be instrumental in revealing boredom's causes and consequences.
John D Eastwood
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Does the Boredom Proneness Scale capture traitness of boredom? Results from a six-year longitudinal trait-state-occasion model

Personality and Individual Differences, 2019
Abstract The Boredom Proneness Scale (BPS) is the only full-scale designed to assess the propensity to boredom. This scale is a theoretical. The aim of the present study was twofold: (a) replicate the factorial structure of the BPS, and (b) examine whether the BPS scores specifically capture trait boredom or are confounded by the state of ...
Guillaume Broc, Nathalie Bailly
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The Relationship Between Academic Trait Boredom, Learning Approach and University Achievement

Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2019
This study explored factors that influence academic achievement and hence, future career prospects. The relationships between the factors, academic trait boredom, approach to learning and academic achievement were examined using data collected from university students at a small English university and from their student records.
Brian Hemmings, John G Sharp
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Trait Boredom Is a Predictor of Phubbing Frequency

Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science, 2018
Existing research on phubbing, or the act of looking at the smartphone while having a face-to-face conversation with others, highlighted a number of factors that could cause one to use their smartphone while having a face-to-face conversation with others including smartphone addiction, SMS (texting) addiction, social media addiction, Internet addiction
Yeslam Al-Saggaf, Karl K K Wiener, Al-Saggaf Yeslam   +2 more
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Is Trait Boredom Redundant?

Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 2013
The present study explored trait boredom's usefulness as an individual difference measure for the prediction of psychosocial problems. The most striking findings were trait boredom's unique prediction of depression (an internalizing problem) and anger (an externalizing problem), over and above several other well-established trait variables, including ...
Kimberley B. Mercer-Lynn, Jennifer A. Hunter, John D. Eastwood   +2 more
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HPA activity mediates the link between trait impulsivity and boredom

Physiology and Behavior
Boredom, a complex emotional state with implications for mental health and well-being, has garnered attention across disciplines, yet remains relatively understudied in psychiatric research. Here, we explored the intricate relationship between trait-impulsivity, stress, and boredom across two studies.
James M Clay, Matthew O Parker
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State-Trait Boredom: Relationship to Absenteeism, Tenure, and Job Satisfaction

Journal of Business and Psychology, 2001
The relationship between job outcomes (i.e., satisfaction, absenteeism, and tenure) and measures of state (Job Boredom Scale) and trait (Boredom Proneness Scale) boredom was investigated. Data collected from 292 workers in a manufacturing plant in the southeast United States indicated that individuals scoring high on both types of boredom were ...
Steven J. Kass, Stephen J. Vodanovich, Anne Callender   +2 more
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What Kind of Personality is Vulnerable to Boredom? : The Relationship between Internal/External Boredom Proneness and HEXACO Personality Traits

The Korean Society of Culture and Convergence, 2023
The present study examined which personality traits are vulnerable to boredom by exploring the relationship between 6 factors of boredom proneness and personality (HEXACO model). We collected data from 168 university students and conducted a multiple regression analysis.
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