ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2022
Boredom Proneness and Rule-Breaking: A Persistent Relation One Year into the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- Boredom and curiosity: the hunger and the appetite for information.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Modeling fashion as an emergent collective behavior of bored individuals.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Boredom Proneness and Online Deviant Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Rumination and the Moderating Role of Gender.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Boredom in the COVID-19 Pandemic.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Examining the Longitudinal Associations between Adjustment Disorder Symptoms and Boredom during COVID-19.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Boredom in a Time of Uncertainty: State and Trait Boredom's Associations with Psychological Health during COVID-19.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A longitudinal approach to understanding boredom during pandemics: The predictive roles of trauma and emotion dysregulation.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Research conducted within the first year of the pandemic demonstrated that boredom prone individuals were more likely to break rules (e.g., social distancing) aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19. It is of interest whether this relation persisted deeper into the pandemic, given that initial results may have reflected the extraordinary nature of the early stages of the pandemic on one hand, or more stable dispositions on the other. Therefore, in the Summer of 2021, we administered an online survey to investigate whether boredom proneness predicted COVID-19 rule-breaking over one year into the pandemic (and approximately one year after the earlier studies). We found that boredom prone individuals remained more likely to engage in COVID-19 rule-breaking. Our results suggest that a trait disposition towards boredom exerts a persistent, long-term influence on behaviour, one that is detrimental to personal well-being during the pandemic. Adherence to public health measures might be improved by encouraging individuals to find adaptive ways of coping with boredom.
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