ArticleRoyal Society open science2022
Boredom is the root of all evil-or is it? A psychometric network approach to individual differences in behavioural responses to boredom.
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- The Boredom-ADHD Nexus: A Narrative and Meta-Analytic Review of the Evidence.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Pooled it
- Psychometric properties of an arabic translation of the short boredom proneness scale (SBPS) in adults.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The association between boredom proneness, functional status, and views on ageing in geriatric patients.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- People are increasingly bored in our digital age.Communications psychology · 2024Review
- Validation of a German version of the Boredom Proneness Scale and the Multidimensional State Boredom Scale.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- 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
- High state boredom vastly affects psychiatric inpatients and predicts their treatment duration.Translational psychiatry · 2023Article
- Associations Between Trait Boredom and Frequency of Cannabis, Alcohol, and Tobacco Use in College Students.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2023Article
- Boredom Proneness Predicts Self-Assessed Decision Errors in Sports but Is Unrelated to Risk Taking in General.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Functional accounts of boredom propose that boredom serves as an impartial signal to change something about the current situation, which should give rise to adaptive and maladaptive behaviour alike. This seemingly contrasts with research on boredom proneness, which has overwhelmingly shown associations with maladaptive behaviour. To shed light on this discrepancy, we disentangled boredom proneness from individual differences in (i) the
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