The Boredom Prone Personality: A Multitrait-Multimethod Approach

Fultz, Amber A.; Brown, Jill A.; Bernieri, Frank J.

doi:10.1080/00223891.2022.2112205

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“…Despite its theoretical significance as an indicator of psychological well-being and its prompting role in some human behavioral patterns, the emotion of boredom started to receive more structured attention from the psychology community only in recent years, probably due to the long-standing debate on boredom's definition and nature (Fultz et al, 2022). According to the current literature, boredom can be defined as the subjective experience of being in a state perceived as undesirable and unpleasant (Eastwood et al, 2012), associated with a strong difficulty in maintaining attention and a tendency toward cognitive disengagement (Goetz and Hall, 2014;Elpidorou, 2018), as well as with a perceived slow passage of time (Witowska et al, 2020), which generally prompts people to take action to escape the present 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1179142 moment (Westgate and Wilson, 2018).…”

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Bored with boredom? Trait boredom predicts internet addiction through the mediating role of attentional bias toward social networks

Cannito,

Ceccato,

Annunzi

et al. 2023

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Internet addiction is an emerging issue, impacting people’s psychosocial functioning and well-being. However, the prevalence and the mechanisms underlying internet misuse are largely unknown. As with other behavioral addiction disorders, the increase and persistence of internet addiction may be favored by negative affect such as boredom. In this study, we examined the role of boredom susceptibility, as a personality trait, in predicting the risk of internet addiction. Furthermore, we analyzed the attentional mechanisms that may exacerbate dysfunctional internet behaviors. Specifically, we assessed the mediating role of attentional bias toward social media cues on the relation between boredom susceptibility and internet addiction. Sixty-nine young adults were administered a dot-probe task assessing internet-related attentional bias (AB) and questionnaires measuring internet addiction (IAT) and boredom susceptibility (BS-BSSS). Correlation and t-test analyses confirmed that the tendency to experience boredom and selective attention toward social network information was related to internet addiction. Furthermore, the mediation model indicated that AB fully explains the link between BS-BSSS and IAT. The study highlighted the crucial role of selective attentional processing behind internet addiction. The current results are useful for both researchers and clinicians as they suggest that intervention programs for internet addiction should include strategies to cope with dysfunctional cognitive processes.

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