State Boredom During an Experience

Name: State Boredom During an Experience
Creator: Lieberman, A., Morales, A. C., & Amir, O.
Published: 2022
License: https://psychometricscales.com/methodology.html

Momentary Sense That an Activity Is Dragging and Unstimulating

3 items 2022 α 0.85, 0.83, 0.90 across pretests Free Lieberman, A., Morales, A. C., & Amir, O.

What it measures

This scale measures how much a person's attention wandered and how much they wished they were doing something more exciting during a particular activity. Lieberman, Morales, and Amir (2022) used it to study how tangential immersion helps people persist through boring consumer tasks.

Representative items

To what extent did it feel like time was dragging?
To what extent was your mind wandering?

Citation

Lieberman, Alicea, Andrea C. Morales, and On Amir (2022), "Tangential Immersion: Increasing Persistence in Boring Consumer Behaviors," Journal of Consumer Research, 49 (3), 450-472.

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