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Trait Boredom as a Lack of Agency: A Theoretical Model and a New Assessment Tool.
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- Boredom in Psychiatric Disorders: Another Dimensional Construct?Brain and behavior · 2026Review
- The association between boredom and mind-wandering weakens with increasing depressive symptom severity.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Boredom proneness and short-video addiction among Chinese vocational college students: psychological resilience as a mediator and gender as a moderator.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Differential associations of parents' ADHD tendencies, boredom proneness, and parenting styles with children's ADHD tendencies and boredom proneness.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Connected by Boredom: A Systematic Review of the Role of Trait Boredom in Problematic Technology Use.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Trait and state of grit among middle school students in South Korea: the influence of peer, teacher, and parental variables.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Boredom signals deviation from a cognitive homeostatic set point.Communications psychology · 2025Review
- People are increasingly bored in our digital age.Communications psychology · 2024Review
- Toward stressor-free stress estimation: The integrated information theory explains the information dynamics of stress.iScience · 2024Article
- Validation of a German version of the Boredom Proneness Scale and the Multidimensional State Boredom Scale.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Disentangling boredom from depression using the phenomenology and content of involuntary autobiographical memories.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Boredom and curiosity: the hunger and the appetite for information.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- High state boredom vastly affects psychiatric inpatients and predicts their treatment duration.Translational psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
Trait boredom plays a significant role in well-being. However, this construct suffers from conceptual ambiguity and measurement problems. The aim of this study was to propose a comprehensive theory and a strong assessment tool to address these limitations. We defined trait boredom as the frequent experience of state boredom resulting from a chronic lack of agency. We developed a six-item self-report scale of the tendency to often experience boredom. Results confirmed a uni-dimensional scale with strong psychometric properties, including adequate internal consistency (ω = .84-.93), interindividual stability (69.04% of variance accounted by a trait factor), and acceptable model fit (CFI = .977-.998, TLI = .962-.997, RMSEA = .025-.090, SRMR = .014-.029). Results confirmed the validity of the scale by showing its associations with related measures. Our findings provide clarity on trait boredom and a strong, new measure to be used in future work.
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