ArticlePrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2021
Boredom by Sensation-Seeking Interactions During Adolescence: Associations with Substance Use, Externalizing Behavior, and Internalizing Symptoms in a US National Sample.
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- Social Anxiety and Sensation-seeking Tendencies in Young Adults.Annals of neurosciences · 2026Article
- Reciprocal relationship between boredom proneness and problematic social media use among Chinese adolescents: a random intercept cross-lagged panel model.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- What is the perceived relationship between boredom and substance use among persons who are unhoused?PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- Digital Phenotyping of Sensation Seeking: A Machine Learning Approach Using Gait Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Connected by Boredom: A Systematic Review of the Role of Trait Boredom in Problematic Technology Use.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Mental health problems among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeated cross-sectional study from Sweden.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2024Article
- Disentangling boredom from depression using the phenomenology and content of involuntary autobiographical memories.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Emotion dysregulation and psychopathological symptoms in non-clinical adolescents: The mediating role of boredom and social media use.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Article
- Social Exclusion and Short Video Addiction: The Mediating Role of Boredom and Self-Control.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- Operant novelty seeking predicts cue-induced reinstatement following cocaine but not water reinforcement in male rats.Psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Sensation Seeking and Substance use in Chinese Adolescents: Longitudinal Trajectories and Prospective Within-person Associations.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2023Article
- Sensation Seeking and Adolescent Drinking: Do Protective Behavioral Strategies Lower Risk?Journal of counseling and development : JCD · 2022Article
- Adolescent Addiction to Short Video Applications in the Mobile Internet Era.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Temporal instability in brain activation: a novel paradigm for evaluating the maintenance of attention among substance dependent patients.Psychopharmacology · 2021Article
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Abstract
During adolescence, sensation seeking is linked to several adverse outcomes including substance use, risk taking, and psychopathology. Recent empirical interest in the construct of boredom has revealed that some similar associations may exist for boredom during adolescence. Both boredom and sensation seeking peak during adolescence, and yet, research on boredom and its interaction with sensation seeking are limited. In a multi-cohort, US nationally representative sample of 8th and 10th grade students from the monitoring the future study, latent-moderated structural equation modeling was used to estimate the association of boredom, sensation seeking, and their interaction, to substance use, externalizing behavior, and depressive affect. Moderation by gender was also tested. Boredom and sensation seeking were both significantly associated with most dependent variables. Significant interaction effects were found wherein individuals high on both boredom and sensation seeking reported the highest levels of depressive affect and externalizing behavior. There were no significant interaction effects for substance use indices. Gender moderation was found for depressive affect. The results of this study demonstrate the generalizability of boredom associations and the significance of boredom by sensation-seeking interactions across multiple mental health domains during adolescence. Prevention efforts that attend to both boredom and sensation seeking may be particularly effective for promoting mental health and preventing externalizing behavior.
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