The Moral Dimensions of Boredom: A Call for Research

Elpidorou, Andreas

doi:10.1037/gpr0000098

“…However, it has also been linked to positive outcomes such as creativity (Harris, 2000 ) and pro-social behavior (Van Tilburg and Igou, 2017 ). Boredom is a powerful motivator for negative and positive behaviors alike (Elpidorou, 2014 , 2017 ). If correctly taken into account, boredom informs schoolers, that they are failing to pay attention and that a change in behavior is needed.…”

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confidence: 99%

High Trait Self-Control and Low Boredom Proneness Help COVID-19 Homeschoolers

Martarelli

¹

,

Pacozzi

²

,

Bieleke

³

et al. 2021

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In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) schools around the world have been closed to protect against the spread of coronavirus. In several countries, homeschooling has been introduced to replace classroom schooling. With a focus on individual differences, the present study examined 138 schoolers (age range = 6 to 21 years) regarding their self-control and boredom proneness. The results showed that both traits were important in predicting adherence to homeschooling. Schoolers with higher levels of self-control perceived homeschooling as less difficult, which in turn increased homeschooling adherence. In contrast, schoolers with higher levels of boredom proneness perceived homeschooling as more difficult, which in turn reduced homeschooling adherence. These results partially hold when it comes to studying in the classroom. However, boredom threatened adherence only in the homeschooling context. Our results indicate that boredom proneness is a critical construct to consider when educational systems switch to homeschooling during a pandemic.

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“…However, it has also been linked to positive outcomes such as creativity (Harris, 2000) and pro-social behavior (Van Tilburg & Igou, 2017). Boredom is a powerful motivator for negative and positive behaviors alike (Elpidorou, 2014(Elpidorou, , 2017. If correctly taken into account, boredom informs schoolers, that they are failing to pay attention and that a change in behavior is needed.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

High trait self-control and low boredom proneness help COVID-19 homeschoolers

Martarelli¹,

Pacozzi²,

Bieleke³

et al. 2020

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In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) schools around the world have been closed to protect against the spread of coronavirus. In several countries, homeschooling has been introduced to replace classroom schooling. With a focus on individual differences, the present study examined 138 schoolers (age range = 6 to 21 years) regarding their self-control and boredom proneness. The results showed that both traits were important in predicting adherence to homeschooling. Schoolers with higher levels of self-control perceived homeschooling as less difficult, which in turn increased homeschooling adherence. In contrast, schoolers with higher levels of boredom proneness perceived homeschooling as more difficult, which in turn reduced homeschooling adherence. These results partially hold when it comes to studying in the classroom. However, boredom threatened adherence only in the homeschooling context. Our results indicate that boredom proneness is a critical construct to consider when educational systems switch to homeschooling during a pandemic.

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“…What is boredom? By "boredom" I mean the state of boredom (Elpidorou 2017b) and not the personality trait of boredomthe latter is conceptualized as the frequent experience of boredom in a wide range of situations, is measured using self-report scales (Farmer & Sundberg 1986), and has been shown to be correlated with a number of harms (Elpidorou 2017a;Vodanovich 2003;Vodanovich & Watt 2015). As a state, boredom is a concrete and shortlived affective experience that is characterized by feelings of dissatisfaction (Csikszentmihalyi 1975;Fahlman et al 2013;Greenson 1953;Hartocollis 1972), attentional difficulties (Eastwood et al 2012), and the perception of meaninglessness (Van Tilburg & Igou 2012).…”

Section: Boris Egloffmentioning

confidence: 99%

Art as emotional exploration

Oatley

¹

2017

Behav Brain Sci

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The Roman poet Horace said poetry gives pleasure and instructs. A more informative theory is that poetry and art, in general, are less about pleasure than about exploration of emotions. Literary authors concentrate on negative emotions, seemingly to try and understand them. In two studies, reading literary art enabled the transformation of selfhood, not by being instructed but by people changing in their own ways.

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The Moral Dimensions of Boredom: A Call for Research

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High Trait Self-Control and Low Boredom Proneness Help COVID-19 Homeschoolers

High Trait Self-Control and Low Boredom Proneness Help COVID-19 Homeschoolers

High trait self-control and low boredom proneness help COVID-19 homeschoolers

Art as emotional exploration

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