Boredom isn’t just murderously frustrating, it’s a psychological trait with surprisingly far-reaching effects.
Boredom Proneness Test, by Science of Us - http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/09/how-easily-bored-are-you-take-this-quiz-to-find-out.html
Boredom Proneness - The Development & Correlates of a New Scale (Farmer & Sundburg, 1986) - https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53a79084e4b01786c921de45/t/53a85547e4b0cd712a48205b/1403540807167/Boredeom+Proneness+-+The+Development+and+Correlates+of+a+New+Scale+%28Farmer+%26+Sundberg%2C+1986%29.pdf
Why boredom is anything but boring (Koerth-Baker, 2016) - http://www.nature.com/news/why-boredom-is-anything-but-boring-1.19140
The History of Boredom (McRobbie, 2012) - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-history-of-boredom-138176427/
Relations between brain chemistry and problem-solving among rats raised in enriched and impoverished environments (Rosenzweig & Bennett, 1962) - http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1964-03801-001
Relationships between boredom proneness, mindfulness, anxiety, depression, and substance use (LePera, 2011) - http://www.nspb.net/index.php/nspb/article/download/159/88
The Relationships Between Need for Cognition, Boredom Proneness, Task Engagement, and Test Performance (Diehl & Wyrick, 2015) - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2158244015585606
Cognitive Correlates of Boredom Proneness: The Role of Private Self-Consciousness and Absorption (Seib & Vodanovich, 2010) - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00223989809599295
The Bright Side of Boredom (Elpidorou, 2014) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4217352/