On boredom: Lack of challenge and meaning as distinct boredom experiences

By Wijnand Adriaan Pieter Van Tilburg, Eric Raymond Igou. Motivation and Emotion, 2011

393 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4109ca512243bf7bd0bc20d5bec2c652e7adea10

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Applied Psychology

In Cognitive Neuroscience

In Social Psychology

Citations in the corpus

The good of boredom (2018, neutral): “…be doing something else and will try, when it is possible, to escape a boring situation (Bench & Lench, 2013 Berlyne, 1960; De Chenne, 1988; Fahlman et al., 2013; Fenichel, 1953; Fiske & Maddi, 1961; Greenson, 1953; Hebb, 1966; Mikulas & Vodanovich, 1993; Todman, 2003; Van Tilburg and Igou, 2012).”
Can job crafting reduce job boredom and increase work engagement? A three-year cross-lagged panel study (2016, neutral): “…demands (e.g. role con ﬂ ict, role ambiguity, red tape and hassles) may hamper well-being, challenge demands (e.g. high workload, time pressure, job responsibility) may foster work engagement (Crawford, LePine, & Rich, 2010) and protect employees from job boredom (van Tilburg & Igou, 2012).”
Students' level of boredom, boredom coping strategies, epistemic curiosity, and graded performance (2016, methodology): “Therefore, seven items, originally written by Van Tilburg and Igou to evaluate individuals’ distinctive experiences of boredom (Appendix A), were imported to assess students’ levels of boredom in relation to mathematics lessons reliably.”
Measuring Motivation in Low-Stakes Assessments (2015, background): “Boredom, typically measured through self-report, is a negative affective state characterized by feelings that the task is unchallenging and as though one’s actions have little value in the current situation (Pekrun, Goetz, Daniels, Stupnisky, & Perry, 2010; Van Tilburg & Igou, 2011).”
Types of boredom: An experience sampling approach (2014, background): “…future studies might also be designed to allow for an empirical investigation of whether students referred in their description of boredom to ‘‘pure’’ experiences of boredom or whether other emotions experienced at that time had an impact on those descriptions (cf., Van Tilburg and Igou 2012).”
The Role of Metamotivational Monitoring in Motivation Regulation (2018, background): “We propose that low outcome value, and not just low intrinsic value, may be related to boredom because some studies suggest that boredom is associated with a perceived lack of meaning or purpose (e.g., van Tilburg & Igou, 2012).”
Can boredom help? Increased prosocial intentions in response to boredom (2017, neutral): “Feeling bored is unpleasant and shares elements with other negative affective states such as sadness, frustration, and anger (Smith, Wagaman, & Handley, 2009; Van Tilburg & Igou, 2012).”
The bored mind is a guiding mind: toward a regulatory theory of boredom (2018, background): “In turn, given that the individual is not engaged with the situation, the individual is moved to consider alternative situations, goals, and course of actions (Bench & Lench, 2013; Fahlman et al., 2013; Van Tilburg & Igou, 2012).”
The Unengaged Mind (2012, background): “Boredom is also negatively correlated with a sense of purpose in life (Fahlman, Mercer, Gaskovski, Eastwood, & Eastwood, 2009; Melton & Schulenberg, 2007; van Tilburg & Igou, 2011).”
Finding Meaning in Nostalgia (2018, background): “Boredom is characterized by dissatisfaction, negative affect, and anxiety (Van Tilburg & Igou, 2012).”