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Inspired by recent reports that boredom is becoming an increasingly greater indi vidual and societal problem, this study sought answers to the following questions:What factors contribute to the sense of leisure as boredom? How is the sense of leisure as boredom related to leisure and life satisfaction? Based upon the data obtained from the responses of 134 community residents, the results indicated, in complete support of the theoretical predictions, that leisure attitudes, leisure reper toire, self-motivation, and awareness of the psychological value of leisure were negatively and significantly related to the boredom perception, while the contribu tions of work attitudes and leisure constraints to boredom in leisure were signifi cant and positive. The boredom perception was negatively (significantly) related to leisure satisfaction, but not related at all to life satisfaction. Awareness of the psychological value of leisure was by far the best predictor of the boredom percep tion, with its contribution to the total multiple R2 (.60) being one-half (.30). These results have important implications for those educators and practitioners who are making people cognitively conscious of the potential of leisure to enrich their lives.Amid unprecedented affluence, personal freedom to match, and rap idly advancing technology, boredom has become a serious obstruction to the search for and maintenance of happiness and mental health in many lives (Bernstein, 1975). Boredom is becoming a major individual and social problem, not only to the middle-aged but to the young as well (Keen, 1977). A danger with chronic boredom is that it is a form of depression that may lead to far more suicides than generally recog nized (Bernstein, 1975).

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