Existential escape of the bored: A review of meaning-regulation processes under boredom

AB Moynihan, ER Igou… - European Review of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Boredom is a common, unpleasant emotion that conveys meaninglessness in life and
compels people to escape from this adverse existential experience. Within the paradigm of …

Attention drifting in and out: The boredom feedback model

KYY Tam, WAP Van Tilburg, CS Chan… - Personality and …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
We synthesize established and emerging research to propose a feedback process model
that explicates key antecedents, experiences, and consequences of the emotion boredom …

What is boredom proneness? A comparison of three characterizations

KYY Tam, WAP Van Tilburg, CS Chan - Journal of personality, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Boredom proneness is associated with various problematic behaviors and mental
health issues. Despite its wide‐ranging implication, boredom proneness as a trait‐like …

Risk‐taking increases under boredom

A Kılıç, WAP Van Tilburg… - Journal of Behavioral …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We examined if boredom is associated with risk‐taking. Although this association has
frequently been postulated, it has rarely been tested, and the evidence has thus far been …

The significance of boredom: A literature review

M Finkielsztein - Journal of Boredom Studies, 2023 - boredomsociety.com
The paper aims at providing concise but thorough presentation of the state of art in the
emerging field of boredom studies evidencing boredom significance to provide researchers …

The rage of lonely men: Loneliness and misogyny in the online movement of “involuntary celibates”(incels)

RR Tietjen, SK Tirkkonen - Topoi, 2023 - Springer
In this article, we investigate the relationship between loneliness and misogyny amongst the
online movement of “involuntary celibates”(incels) that has become widely known through …

The hot and the cold in destructive leadership: Modeling the role of arousal in explaining leader antecedents and follower consequences of abusive supervision …

F Emmerling, C Peus… - Organizational …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Due to its devastating consequences, research needs to theoretically and empirically
disentangle different sub-types of destructive leadership. Based on concepts derived from …

Self-compassion predicts less boredom: The role of meaning in life

MK O'Dea, ER Igou, WAP van Tilburg… - Personality and Individual …, 2022 - Elsevier
Boredom is a prevalent experience linked to negative psychological and societal outcomes.
Building on the notion that sources of meaning in life can mitigate boredom, we examined …

Preventing boredom with gratitude: The role of meaning in life

MK O'Dea, ER Igou, WAP van Tilburg - Motivation and Emotion, 2024 - Springer
Boredom signals a lack of meaning. Gratitude promotes feelings of meaning in life. We
proposed accordingly that gratitude, by engendering meaning, shields against boredom …

Contextual and psychological predictors of militant extremist mindset in youth

M Vukčević Marković, A Nicović… - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The present study aims to identify contextual and psychological factors of proneness to
radicalization and violent extremism (RVE) operationalized through the Militant Extremist …