Boredom Makes Me Sick: Adolescents’ Boredom Trajectories and Their Health-Related Quality of Life

The phenomenon of boredom

Boredom remains a poorly understood phenomenon despite its evident association with dysfunctional behavior and mental health problems. However, little research has been devoted to the topic, and the bulk of studies have almost exclusively been quantitative in design. For this reason, a qualitative, interpretive phenomenological study was carried out, during which ten participants were asked for...

A Philosophy of Boredom

In Place of Boredom

Obesity and Health-Related quality of Life

Introduction: Problems and issues related to obesity are not limited to medical and physical conditions; rather, obesity has a profound effect on the functional capacity and health-related quality of life. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of obesity on various aspects of health-related quality of life. Methods: In this review study, the relationship between obesity and health-...

Boredom, Information-Seeking and Exploration

Any adaptive organism faces the choice between taking actions with known benefits (exploitation), and sampling new actions to check for other, more valuable opportunities available (exploration). The latter involves informationseeking, a drive so fundamental to learning and long-term reward that it can reasonably be considered, through evolution or development, to have acquired its own value, i...