Boredom is an emotional state experienced during periods lacking activity or when individuals are uninterested in the opportunities surrounding them.
It has been defined by C. D. Fisher in terms of its central psychological processes: “an unpleasant, transient affective state in which the individual feels a pervasive lack of interest in and difficulty concentrating on the current activity.”
M. R. Leary and others describe boredom as “an affective experience associated with cognitive attentional processes.”
In positive psychology, anxiety is described as a response to a moderate challenge for which the subject has more than enough skill.
These definitions make it clear that boredom arises not from a lack of things to do but from the inability to latch onto any specific activity.
It has been defined by C. D. Fisher in terms of its central psychological processes: “an unpleasant, transient affective state in which the individual feels a pervasive lack of interest in and difficulty concentrating on the current activity.”
M. R. Leary and others describe boredom as “an affective experience associated with cognitive attentional processes.”
In positive psychology, anxiety is described as a response to a moderate challenge for which the subject has more than enough skill.
These definitions make it clear that boredom arises not from a lack of things to do but from the inability to latch onto any specific activity.
