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Boredom is an everyday experience during uneventful situations and while waiting. Such situations are typically described as unpleasant since oneself becomes the focus of awareness, and the subjective duration expands. Self-control is an individual trait that helps to cope with unpleasant situations. Hardly any systematic studies exist on real waiting situations where people's boredom and subjective time experience are assessed in relation to self-control. Therefore, we assessed 99 participants who first filled out self-report questionnaires on emotional and metacognitive control, the Scale for Experiencing Emotions (SEE) and the Temporal Metacognition Scale (TMCS). After giving a fake reason for why they had to wait, participants were shut in an empty room alone for 7.5 minutes and afterwards asked to report their impressions regarding the experienced time and reactions to the situation. Boredom was associated with the feeling of time passing more slowly and more frequent thoughts about time. The propensity to self-regulate was related to less awareness of time and to lower levels of boredom. Mediation analyses revealed that the level of boredom mediates the relationships between self-regulation processes and time perception. The results provide new insights into the association between time perception and boredom as states in a real situation and self-regulation as a trait.
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Dopamine is known as the main neurotransmitter modulating the activation of the reward system of the brain. The DRD2 TaqIA polymorphism is associated with dopamine D2 receptor density which plays an important role in the context of reward. Persons carrying an A1 allele have a lower D2 receptor density and a higher risk to show substance abuse. The present study was designed to investigate the influence of the DRD2 TaqIA polymorphism and the selective D2 receptor agonist bromociptine on the activation of the reward system by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In a double-blind crossover study with 24 participants we found an increase of reward system activation from placebo to bromocriptine only in subjects carrying the A1 allele. Furthermore, only A1 carrier showed an increase of performance under bromocriptine. The results are interpreted as reflecting a specific sensitivity for dopamine agonists in persons carrying an A1 allele and may complement actual data and theories of the development of addiction disorders postulating a higher genetic risk for substance abuse in carrier of the A1 allele.
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- Englisch (2)
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- Cross-Sectional Studies
- Adolescent (2)
- Adult (2)
- *Boredom (1)
- Boredom (1)
- Brain/blood supply/*drug effects/physiology (1)
- Bromocriptine/*pharmacology (1)
- Dopamine Agonists/*pharmacology (1)
- Double-Blind Method (1)
- Emotion (1)
- Emotions (1)
- Feedback, Psychological/drug effects/physiology (1)
- Female (2)
- Humans (2)
- Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/methods (1)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods (1)
- Male (2)
- Oxygen/blood (1)
- *Polymorphism, Genetic (1)
- Reaction Time/drug effects/genetics (1)
- Receptors, Dopamine D2/*genetics (1)
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods (1)
- *Reward (1)
- Self-control (1)
- Self-Control/*psychology (1)
- Self Report (1)
- *Time Perception (1)
- Time perception (1)
- Waiting situation (1)
- Young Adult (1)