The effectiveness of an online attention training program in improving attention and reducing boredom

IF 1.7 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Motivation and Emotion Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI:10.1007/s11031-024-10081-2

Hoi Ching Ng, Wai-lap Lance Wong, Christian S. Chan

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Frequent and intense experiences of boredom may lead to negative consequences. Enhancing sustained attention has been suggested as a potential strategy for mitigating boredom. We investigated the effectiveness of a four-week intervention to improve attention levels in daily activities and alleviate boredom. In this quasi-experiment, 73 adults were allocated to either the intervention group (n = 32), which participated in a four-session online attention training program, or the no-intervention control group (n = 41). Data were collected through baseline and post-intervention questionnaires, as well as experience sampling over a 28-day period. In line with our hypotheses, multilevel modeling results indicated that attention levels in the intervention group increased throughout the training compared to the control group. Additionally, we observed a decrease in state boredom levels and a significant between-group difference in post-intervention boredom proneness. We found that the attention training program was effective in boosting attention levels and reducing boredom experiences and boredom proneness among healthy adults.

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在线注意力训练课程在提高注意力和减少无聊方面的效果

频繁和强烈的无聊体验可能会导致负面影响。提高持续注意力被认为是减轻无聊感的一种潜在策略。我们研究了为期四周的干预措施对提高日常活动中的注意力水平和减轻无聊感的效果。在这项准实验中，73 名成年人被分配到干预组（32 人）或无干预对照组（41 人），前者参加了为期四节的在线注意力训练课程。通过基线和干预后调查问卷以及 28 天的经验取样收集数据。多层次建模结果显示，与对照组相比，干预组在整个培训期间的注意力水平都有所提高，这与我们的假设相符。此外，我们还观察到了状态无聊水平的下降，以及干预后无聊倾向的显著组间差异。我们发现，注意力训练计划能有效提高健康成年人的注意力水平，减少无聊体验和无聊倾向。

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期刊介绍： Motivation and Emotion publishes articles on human motivational and emotional phenomena that make theoretical advances by linking empirical findings to underlying processes. Submissions should focus on key problems in motivation and emotion, and, if using non-human participants, should contribute to theories concerning human behavior. Articles should be explanatory rather than merely descriptive, providing the data necessary to understand the origins of motivation and emotion, to explicate why, how, and under what conditions motivational and emotional states change, and to document that these processes are important to human functioning.A range of methodological approaches are welcome, with methodological rigor as the key criterion. Manuscripts that rely exclusively on self-report data are appropriate, but published articles tend to be those that rely on objective measures (e.g., behavioral observations, psychophysiological responses, reaction times, brain activity, and performance or achievement indicators) either singly or combination with self-report data.The journal generally does not publish scale development and validation articles. However, it is open to articles that focus on the post-validation contribution that a new measure can make. Scale development and validation work therefore may be submitted if it is used as a necessary prerequisite to follow-up studies that demonstrate the importance of the new scale in making a theoretical advance.