The effectiveness of cognitive strategies for reducing boredom during repetitive task performance
Year: 1986
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Recent applications of information processing theory suggest that the type of cognitive strategy a person uses to reduce boredom may be effective differentially across tasks of varying difficulty. To investigate this hypothesis, sixty undergraduate students were assigned randomly to either a cognitive task restructuring, a cognitive goal restructuring, or a no assigned cognitive restructuring condition under either easy or difficult task conditions. Self-report measures of boredom, attentiveness, frustration, fatigue, strain restlessness , and non-task related thought; physiological measures of frontal EMG, peripheral skin temperature, skin conductance, and body movement; and performance measures of number of items attempted, accuracy, response latency, and response consistency served as dependent measures. The results showed that cognitive task and cognitive goal restructuring were both effective in reducing boredom when performing an easy task, but that only cognitive goal restructuring effectively reduced boredom in the difficult task
Source: Summit (Simon Fraser University)
Author: E. Ladewig Petersen
Language: English
Topic: Mind wandering and attention
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Simon Fraser University
OpenAlex ID: W2311954304