Isacescu Julia, Danckert James
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada.
Exp Brain Res. 2018 Sep;236(9):2493-2505. doi: 10.1007/s00221-016-4674-9. Epub 2016 May 23.
Characterized as an agitated state in which the individual is motivated to engage in their environment but all attempts to do so fail to satisfy, boredom represents a disengaged attentional state that is associated with negative affect and poor self-control. There have been anecdotal reports of increased levels of boredom post-traumatic brain injury (TBI). For the first time, we provide objective evidence that TBI patients do indeed experience higher levels of boredom proneness. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that the presence and severity of head injury were a significant positive predictor of levels of boredom proneness and a negative predictor of self-control. As with healthy controls, TBI patients showed a strong negative correlation between boredom proneness and self-control-those with lower levels of self-control exhibited higher levels of boredom proneness. This was despite the fact that our TBI patients reported higher overall levels of self-control (probably concomitant with their older mean age). The TBI patients also showed strong positive correlations between boredom proneness and measures of physical aggression and anger. Together, this suggests that patients with TBI may be more susceptible to increased levels of boredom proneness and other negative affective states that arise as a consequence of failures of self-control.
无聊被描述为一种激动的状态，处于这种状态的个体有动力去融入周围环境，但所有这样做的尝试都无法带来满足感，它代表着一种注意力分散的状态，与负面情绪和较差的自我控制能力相关。有轶事报道称创伤性脑损伤（TBI）后无聊程度会增加。我们首次提供了客观证据，证明TBI患者确实更容易感到无聊。分层回归分析表明，头部损伤的存在和严重程度是无聊倾向水平的显著正预测因子，也是自我控制能力的负预测因子。与健康对照组一样，TBI患者的无聊倾向与自我控制能力之间存在很强的负相关性——自我控制能力较低的患者无聊倾向水平较高。尽管我们的TBI患者报告的总体自我控制水平较高（可能与他们较高的平均年龄有关），但情况依然如此。TBI患者的无聊倾向与身体攻击和愤怒的测量指标之间也存在很强的正相关性。综合来看，这表明TBI患者可能更容易出现更高水平的无聊倾向以及由于自我控制失败而产生的其他负面情绪状态。
