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Boredom Prone or Nothing to Do? Distinguishing Between State and Trait Leisure
Boredom and its Association with Substance Use in South African Adolescents
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Weybright EH
; Caldwell LL
; Ram N
; Smith EA
; Wegner L
Leis Sci
2015[]; 37
(4
): 311-331
PMID26085700
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Reducing adolescent substance use is important in South Africa, a developing
nation with increasing adolescent substance use, lack of leisure/recreation
opportunities, and high rates of adolescent discretionary time. Previous research
suggests leisure boredom and adolescent substance use co-occur in this setting.
Using longitudinal data from 2,580 SA adolescents as they progressed from the
8(th) to 11(th) grade, the current study disentangles the associations of trait
and state leisure boredom with substance use, and examines how ability to
restructure boring situations moderates those associations. On average,
individuals with higher trait boredom used more substances, and on occasions when
state boredom was high, the prototypical adolescent used more substances.
Although restructuring did not moderate these associations, greater ability was
associated with lower substance use independent of leisure boredom. Findings
illustrated the importance of considering how trait and state aspects of leisure
may contribute to adolescents' risk behavior and addressed through preventive
intervention.
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