Boredom and arousal: comparison of tasks differing in visual complexity.
This experiment was designed to examine the relationship of boredom to arousal. 32 male subjects participated, with 16 subjects performing a low-visual-complexity task and the remainder performing a task high in visual complexity. Both physiological and subjective measures were obtained. Responses to subjective questionnaires showed significant increases in boredom for both groups. Physiological measures indicated a mixed pattern of change. These results suggest a complex response pattern for the construct of boredom which cannot be described as clearly showing either increasing or decreasing arousal.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology*; D001288:Attention; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001887:Boredom; D005221:Fatigue / Q000209:etiology; D005712:Galvanic Skin Response; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009068:Movement; D011603:Psychophysiology; D012647:Self-Assessment; D013997:Time Factors; D014796:Visual Perception