Who gets further? Prediction of the Qualification for the International Biology and Chemistry Olympiad on the Basis of the Achievement Motivation Model of EcclesThe expectancy-value model of achievement motivation by Eccles et al. (1983) was used to ...
Phenomenology of boredom at schoolAbstract. The aim of the present study was to identify and categorize phenomenological aspects of boredom in a school setting. For this purpose, 50 9th grade students (50% female) were interviewed. Based on students’ ...
Abstract: The Short Boredom Proneness Scale (SBPS) has recently been developed. Using a standard confirmatory factor analysis, we report on the structural validation of the French SBPS, which provided support for the original construct. A network ...
The aim of the present study is to provide experimental data relevant to the issue of what leads humans to use automatic tools. Two answers can be offered. The first is that humans strive to minimize physical and/or cognitive effort (principle of least ...
Abstract. Boredom is a prevalent and relevant, yet understudied, negative emotion in the field of media psychology. This paper proposes novel theoretical foundations to study boredom as an emotion and its related regulation strategies in ...
Abstract. High (vs. low) levels of boredom are associated with greater (vs. lesser) impulsiveness. It is important to examine the psychological processes that link boredom and impulsiveness to understand this relationship. We propose that ...