Trajectories of boredom in self-control demanding tasks

Self-control does not always work effectively. Whether this reflects the depletion of a global self-control resource is subject to an ongoing debate. We turned boredom as potential confounding variable advance In high-powered experiment (N = 719), participants worked on primary (transcription) task varying demands (low, high) and length (2, 4, 8 min), followed by secondary (Stroop) with low high demanding trials. addition trait boredom, we measured effort, difficulty, tiredness, frustration, after repeatedly during task. Effort, frustration increased demand duration task; however, without affecting performance in Importantly, rated both boring, higher at state level was associated lower effort frustration. During task, steadily but generally more Finally, predicted These results show intricate relationship between that research these two constructs should carefully disentangle.