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High state boredom vastly affects psychiatric inpatients and predicts their treatment duration
Boredom is a ubiquitous, aversive human experience typically elicited by low information and monotony. Boredom can occur either as a transient mental state that prompts individuals to adapt their behavior to avoid monotony or as a temporally stable trait, describing a chronic susceptibility to feeli...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10654381/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37973905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02650-9 |
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author | Seiler, Johannes P.-H. Zerr, Katharina Rumpel, Simon Tüscher, Oliver |
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description | Boredom is a ubiquitous, aversive human experience typically elicited by low information and monotony. Boredom can occur either as a transient mental state that prompts individuals to adapt their behavior to avoid monotony or as a temporally stable trait, describing a chronic susceptibility to feeling bored. Increased trait boredom was found to correlate with various psychopathologies and indicators of mental burden. However, the role of state boredom in psychopathological conditions and its implications for psychiatric treatment remain elusive. Here, we address this issue by investigating state boredom and trait boredom in a cohort of psychiatric inpatients and a healthy control cohort. We find that in both groups, state boredom, even more than trait boredom, shows remarkable associations with psychopathology. In the inpatient group, state boredom is implicated broadly in multiple mental disorders and shows an association with treatment in closed psychiatric wards. Furthermore, through statistical modeling, we find that high-state boredom during inpatient therapy is predictive of a longer therapy duration. Thus, we show that state boredom constitutes an indicator of mild and severe psychopathology in different mental disorders, affecting the outcome of psychiatric patients. Potential therapeutic interventions are discussed, aiming to enhance information flow in the brain in order to alleviate boredom in clinical settings. |
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spelling | pubmed-106543812023-11-16 High state boredom vastly affects psychiatric inpatients and predicts their treatment duration Seiler, Johannes P.-H. Zerr, Katharina Rumpel, Simon Tüscher, Oliver Transl Psychiatry Article Boredom is a ubiquitous, aversive human experience typically elicited by low information and monotony. Boredom can occur either as a transient mental state that prompts individuals to adapt their behavior to avoid monotony or as a temporally stable trait, describing a chronic susceptibility to feeling bored. Increased trait boredom was found to correlate with various psychopathologies and indicators of mental burden. However, the role of state boredom in psychopathological conditions and its implications for psychiatric treatment remain elusive. Here, we address this issue by investigating state boredom and trait boredom in a cohort of psychiatric inpatients and a healthy control cohort. We find that in both groups, state boredom, even more than trait boredom, shows remarkable associations with psychopathology. In the inpatient group, state boredom is implicated broadly in multiple mental disorders and shows an association with treatment in closed psychiatric wards. Furthermore, through statistical modeling, we find that high-state boredom during inpatient therapy is predictive of a longer therapy duration. Thus, we show that state boredom constitutes an indicator of mild and severe psychopathology in different mental disorders, affecting the outcome of psychiatric patients. Potential therapeutic interventions are discussed, aiming to enhance information flow in the brain in order to alleviate boredom in clinical settings. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10654381/ /pubmed/37973905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02650-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Seiler, Johannes P.-H. Zerr, Katharina Rumpel, Simon Tüscher, Oliver High state boredom vastly affects psychiatric inpatients and predicts their treatment duration |
title | High state boredom vastly affects psychiatric inpatients and predicts their treatment duration |
title_full | High state boredom vastly affects psychiatric inpatients and predicts their treatment duration |
title_fullStr | High state boredom vastly affects psychiatric inpatients and predicts their treatment duration |
title_full_unstemmed | High state boredom vastly affects psychiatric inpatients and predicts their treatment duration |
title_short | High state boredom vastly affects psychiatric inpatients and predicts their treatment duration |
title_sort | high state boredom vastly affects psychiatric inpatients and predicts their treatment duration |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10654381/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37973905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02650-9 |
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