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Showing 1 to 20 of 118 for “"Boredom"”.
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Ego Depletion and Boredom: Does Boredom Compromise Future Acts of Self-control?
<p>This study explored how boredom might influence self-control when participants believed that willpower is unlimited or limited. After completing one of two questionnaires, which induced the belief that willpower is either unlimited or limited, participants then completed one of three tasks. The …
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The nature of boredom
Though boredom is considered a universal experience "there is no agreed definition or well-developed instrument for measuring it, and there is no comprehensive theory of its causes" (Fisher 1993). Nevertheless the bored are thought to have worse work records, more accidents, higher absenteeism, and …
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Blinded by Boredom: Examining the Effect of Boredom on the Ability to Anticipate Meaningful Experience
Boredom is a common human experience that can have surprisingly deleterious consequences. In a world brimming with opportunities for satisfying engagement, it seems unlikely that anyone would be able to remain bored for long. However, research suggests that people sometimes struggle to rid …
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Leisure boredom and risk behaviour in adolescence
… been very little research investigating leisure boredom and risk behaviour among adolescents in South Africa. The purpose of the research reported in this thesis was to investigate how adolescents experience leisure and boredom in their free time, and how this is associated with risk behaviour - …
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Bored As Hell: Reading Boredom in Modern Literature
Broadly situated in Boredom Studies, this dissertation examines depictions of boredom in modern literature. It aims to understand boredom outside of scientific explanatory models, which often produce a list of causes and effects in a diagnostic language. I ask, what can literary depictions of …
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Boredom Escapes Us: A Cultural Collage in Eleven Storeys
Few sociologists have addressed the concept of boredom despite interest in the subject and experience of boredom from psychology, philosophy, the arts and popular culture. Classical sociological concepts of alienation, anomie and disenchantment are related to boredom, but do not address it …
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Investigating boredom in social commerce: Definition, function, and consequences
Boredom, a ubiquitous emotion, has garnered extensive research attention in digital communication and business, yet remains underexamined in the context of social commerce (s-commerce). This dissertation, comprising three studies (with studies 2 and 3 extending the first), aimed at comprehensively …
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Trait Boredom as a Lack of Agency
Trait boredom suffers from conceptual ambiguity, including a lack of agreed upon definition and theoretical understanding. Existing measures of trait boredom have been shown to lack validity and possess psychometric limitations. The present dissertation sought to address these concerns by proposing …
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The Underused Mind: The Role of Cognition in Trait Boredom
Trait boredom is associated with serious psychosocial consequences. It is also associated with poor sustained attention and self-reported executive dysfunction. However, research on trait boredom and cognitive ability beyond sustained attention is limited. One reason is that there has been a lack …
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Correlating Boredom Proneness With Automation Complacency in Modern Airline Pilots
… consequence of this is increased levels of boredom in individual pilots due to the decreased involvement pilots have in the management of the flight. Automation technology has improved to where the aircraft’s flight management systems can manage an entire flight from shortly after take-off …
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The Pervasive Emptiness: Acedia, Modernity, and the Boredom of Secularity
… the greatest fear of our time is the fear of boredom. We live in an age in which things change daily. New technologies are developed, old inventions are reconceived, the entertainment industry churns out movies, shows, and music constantly, and yet, people still experience boredom. Some have …
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Relationships among adolescent substance use, leisure boredom, and physical activity
… relationships among physical activity, leisure boredom, and various substance use variables; b) determine if leisure boredom moderated the relationship among physical activity and substance use variables; and c) create a foundation of knowledge with which to educate adolescents and educators of …
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Killing time: the effect of boredom during unstructured leisure time on men's health
Mortality statistics routinely show that across all ages and for most causes of death men die earlier than women and unmarried men die earlier than married men. Unhealthy lifestyle behaviours such as tobacco and alcohol use and physical inactivity vary by sex, age, and marital status and other …
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A substantive validity study: An evaluation of withdrawal, burnout, boredom, and CWB item overlap
… counterproductive work behavior, and job boredom. This substantive validity analysis examined the content of items used to measure boredom, burnout, CWB, and withdrawal. We found that 38% of the items were judged to represent multiple constructs. Most of the overlap existed between boredom …
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The relationship between leisure boredom and substance use amongst high school students in Cape Town
… to determine the relationship between leisure boredom and substance use in adolescents attending high school in Cape Town. The degree of leisure boredom experienced by adolescents was investigated, as well as the extent to which boredom is associated with alcohol use, cigarette smoking and …
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Is Trait Boredom About What You Feel or How You Want to Respond to Boring Situations?
If state boredom signals that ones cognitive resources are not engaged in a situation and pushes an individual to seek cognitive engagement, then this study tested the idea that trait boredom moderates the impact of a boring situation on individuals response motivations, as opposed to individuals …
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The Role of Boredom, Loneliness, and Technology Use as Predictors of Sexual Responsibility among Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… disorder. The predictors examined included boredom, loneliness, online risk behavior, intent to use dating apps/websites for casual sex, and intent to use dating apps/websites for romance. Gender differences in sexual responsibility subscales were also explored. ANOVAS yielded women with …
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An Evaluation Of The Effects Of A Leisure Education Curriculum On Deliquents' Motivation, Knowledge, And Behavior Changes Related To Boredom
… decrease in the delinquent youths' proneness to boredom during their free time.
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Boredom's Metamorphosis: Robert Venturi and Saul Steinberg
My dissertation investigates questions of boredom and architecture in the middle decades of the twentieth century through the work of two figures: the American-Italian architect Robert Venturi (b. 1925) and the Romanian-born American architect and artist Saul Steinberg (1914-1999). The topic of …
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Exploring a Dispositional Conceptualization of Leisure in Early Adolescence: An Examination of the Self-as-Entertainment Construct
… subjective state variables of enjoyment, fun, boredom, effort, mental challenge, and physical challenge. It was hypothesized that high self-as-entertainers would report higher levels of enjoyment, fun, effort, mental challenge, and physical challenge and a lower level of boredom than low …
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