“…Iso-Ahola and Weissinger (1990) defined "leisure boredom" as "reflecting a mismatch between desired arousal-producing characteristics of leisure experiences, and perceptual or actual availability of such leisure experiences" (p. 4-5). Their efforts to measure leisure boredom (Iso-Ahola & Weissinger, 1987 as well as the efforts of others (e.g., Caldwell, Smith, & Weissinger, 1992;Wegner, Flisher, Muller, & Lombard, 2002;Weissinger, Caldwell, & Bandalos, 1992) focused on the perspective that what does or does not occupy an individual's free time is central to the experience of leisure boredom.…”