College students are more likely to use their cell phones for leisure than for school or work.
Because leisure is important for health and well-being, and cell phone use has been …

Reducing adolescent substance use is important in South Africa, a developing nation with
increasing adolescent substance use, lack of leisure/recreation opportunities, and high rates …

A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the Year A Guardian “Best Book about Ideas” of the
Year No one likes to be bored. Two leading psychologists explain what causes boredom …

Purpose Boredom is an accepted part of adolescence. Developmental and contextual
factors are likely to conspire to increase boredom during adolescence, which, in turn, relates …

The literature proposes that leisure boredom may systematically increase during
adolescence. Moreover, some authors assume that this hypothesized developmental trend …

Functional accounts of boredom propose that boredom serves as an impartial signal to
change something about the current situation, which should give rise to adaptive and …

Introduction: The main aim of this study is to improve our knowledge on binge drinking
behavior in adolescents. In particular, we tested a model of predictors of binge drinking …

Substance use disorders among youth represent a significant public health concern. It is
well established that regular exercise provides important physical and mental health …

This chapter will examine adolescent leisure from a prevention perspective and will cover
two main topics. First, we will address the paradox of how leisure may contribute to …

A tablet may be the best media device to use to spend time alone or enjoy a moment of
solitude to release stress. The goal of this study is to examine how the desire for aloneness …