What to do when feeling bored?. Students' strategies for coping with boredom.

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 626-638

  Nett, Ulrike E ^a   Goetz, Thomas ^a   Daniels, Lia M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic emotion; Boredom; Boredom coping; Scale development

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149495700     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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