Abstract. Boredom is a prevalent and relevant, yet understudied, negative emotion in the field of media psychology. This paper proposes novel theoretical foundations to study boredom as an emotion and its related regulation strategies in the context of mobile media. Due to their pervasive nature, mobile media allow for boredom regulation via passive and (inter)active exposure to a wide variety of media contents. It is still unclear how and through which processes mobile media provide successful boredom regulation. This paper first describes the existing scarce and mostly older literature on boredom from the field of media psychology and links this to recent insights from general psychology with as its core the meaning and attentional components (MAC) model ( Westgate & Wilson, 2018 ). It then integrates media psychology predictions for mobile media into the MAC model and identifies gaps and opportunities to be tackled in future media psychology studies, by also taking into account the broader boredom findings from within general psychology, for example, those focusing on the meaning component. Finally, the paper provides a summary of the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms giving rise to boredom and proposes methodological innovations for studying the research questions that are still left unanswered. The aim is to inspire future media psychology research on boredom as a highly relevant emotional state and how boredom regulation through mobile media use for can be both a challenge and an opportunity for individuals’ well-being.

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无聊和移动媒体使用的媒体心理学

摘要。在媒体心理学领域，无聊是一种普遍且相关但未被充分研究的负面情绪。本文提出了新的理论基础来研究无聊作为一种情绪及其在移动媒体背景下的相关调节策略。由于其普遍性，移动媒体允许通过被动和（交互）主动接触各种媒体内容来调节无聊。目前尚不清楚移动媒体如何以及通过哪些过程成功地调节无聊。本文首先描述了媒体心理学领域现有的稀缺且大多是较早的关于无聊的文献，并将其与一般心理学的最新见解联系起来，其核心是意义和注意力成分 (MAC) 模型 (Westgate & Wilson, 2018)。然后，它将移动媒体的媒体心理学预测整合到 MAC 模型中，并确定未来媒体心理学研究中需要解决的差距和机会，同时考虑到一般心理学中更广泛的无聊发现，例如，关注意义成分的那些. 最后，本文总结了导致无聊的心理和神经生物学机制，并提出了研究尚未解决的研究问题的方法创新。目的是激发未来的媒体心理学研究，将无聊作为一种高度相关的情绪状态，以及通过移动媒体的使用来调节无聊如何对个人的幸福既是挑战也是机遇。