Fig. 1: Boredom is related to psychopathological symptoms in a cohort of healthy individuals.
From: High state boredom vastly affects psychiatric inpatients and predicts their treatment duration
A Pearson correlation matrix of various psychometric self-report assessments in a sample of n = 883 healthy individuals. The numbers indicate selected correlations of state boredom to psychopathological symptoms, which are further depicted in B. B Correlation scatter plots of state boredom and selected questionnaires reflecting psychopathology. State boredom is robustly correlated to 1: general symptoms of impaired mental health (General Health Questionnaire), 2: depressive symptoms (Beck’s depression inventory), 3: attentional deficits and hyperactivity (Conner’s Adult ADHD Rating Scale), 4: anxiety (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory). The black line indicates the linear fit. Lower n values for the correlation analyses result from the exclusion of subjects who incompletely filled out the questionnaires.
