ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
A Failure to Launch: Regulatory Modes and Boredom Proneness.
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- Examining the Longitudinal Associations between Adjustment Disorder Symptoms and Boredom during COVID-19.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Boredom in the COVID-19 pandemic: Trait boredom proneness, the desire to act, and rule-breaking.Personality and individual differences · 2021Article
- High Trait Self-Control and Low Boredom Proneness Help COVID-19 Homeschoolers.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Boredom is a ubiquitous human experience characterized as a state of wanting but failing to engage with the world. Individuals prone to the experience of boredom demonstrate lower levels of self-control which may be at the heart of their failures to engage in goal-directed, meaningful behaviors. Here we develop the hypothesis that distinct self-regulatory profiles, which in turn differentially influence modes of goal pursuit, are at the heart of boredom proneness. Two specific regulatory modes are addressed: Locomotion, the desire to 'just do it,' an action oriented mode of goal-pursuit, and Assessment, the desire to 'do the right thing,' an evaluative orientation toward goal pursuit. We present data from a series of seven large samples of undergraduates showing that boredom proneness is
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