Isacescu Julia, Struk Andriy Anatolievich, Danckert James
a Department of Psychology , University of Waterloo , Waterloo , Ontario , Canada.
Cogn Emot. 2017 Dec;31(8):1741-1748. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1259995. Epub 2016 Nov 28.
Boredom proneness has been linked to various forms of cognitive and affective dysregulation including poor self-control and mind-wandering (MW), as well as depression and aggression. As such, understanding boredom and the associated cognitive and affective components of the experience, represents an important first step in combatting the consequences of boredom for psychological well-being. We surveyed 1928 undergraduate students on measures of boredom proneness, self-control, MW, depression and aggression to investigate how these constructs were related. Hierarchical regression analysis indicated that self-control operated as a strong negative predictor of boredom proneness. Finally, when controlling for age and self-control, we observed large decreases in the magnitudes of the relationships between boredom proneness and our other measures of interest. Together, these results imply a strong relationship between boredom proneness and cognitive and affective dysregulation, and show that individual levels of self-control can account for the lion's share of variance in the relationships between boredom, cognition, and affect.
易 boredom 倾向与各种形式的认知和情感失调有关，包括自我控制能力差、走神（MW）以及抑郁和攻击性。因此，了解 boredom 以及该体验中相关的认知和情感成分，是对抗 boredom 对心理健康造成的后果的重要第一步。我们对1928名本科生进行了关于 boredom 倾向、自我控制、MW、抑郁和攻击性的测量调查，以研究这些构念之间的关系。分层回归分析表明，自我控制是 boredom 倾向的一个强有力的负向预测指标。最后，在控制年龄和自我控制因素后，我们观察到 boredom 倾向与我们其他感兴趣的测量指标之间的关系强度大幅下降。这些结果共同表明，boredom 倾向与认知和情感失调之间存在着紧密的关系，并表明个体的自我控制水平在 boredom、认知和情感之间的关系中占了大部分的方差。
