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ArticleCommunications psychology2025

Spiritual boredom is associated with over- and underchallenge, lack of value, and reduced motivation.

Thomas Goetz, Jonathan Fries, Lisa Stempfer, Lukas Kraiger, Sarah Stoll, Lena Baumgartner, Yannis L Diamant, Caroline Porics, Bibiana Sonntag, Silke Würglauer and 2 more

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Article in Communications psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Thomas GoetzDepartment of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. thomas.goetz@univie.ac.at.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8908-2166
Jonathan FriesDepartment of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3253-5109
Lisa StempferDepartment of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2748-3738
Lukas KraigerDepartment of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-6792-0444
Sarah StollDepartment of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4930-0277
Lena BaumgartnerDepartment of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Yannis L DiamantDepartment of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Caroline PoricsDepartment of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Bibiana SonntagDepartment of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Silke WürglauerDepartment of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Wijnand A P van TilburgDepartment of Psychology, University of Essex, Essex, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9724-0603
Reinhard PekrunDepartment of Psychology, University of Essex, Essex, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4489-3827

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Abstract

The emotion of boredom has attracted considerable research interest. However, boredom experienced in spiritual contexts (i.e., spiritual boredom) has rarely been investigated. Based on control-value theory (CVT), we investigated the occurrence, antecedents, and motivational effects of spiritual boredom in five different spiritual contexts: yoga, meditation, silence retreats, Catholic sermons, and pilgrimage. For each context, we conducted two independent studies, one including trait and another including state measures. The set of 10 studies included a total sample of N = 1267 adults. We complemented individual study results with an internal meta-analysis. The results showed a mean level of spiritual boredom of

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