Revalidating the Boredom Proneness Scales Short From (BPS-SF)

Boredom proneness is a predictor of depression, loneliness, and job dissatisfaction. As such, the methods of measuring boredom proneness have gained additional scrutiny particularly regarding their little-understood psychometric properties and a heavy reliance on university student samples. The aim of the current research is to revalidate Vodanovich, Wallace and Kass's 12-item Boredom Proneness Scale Short From (BFS-SF; 2005) with a public consumer panel. We present three studies on two large-scale online surveys (n = 970) respondents from general public to test the dimensionality, reliability, and validity of the BFS-SF. Study 1 confirmed the two-factor model of the BFS. Study 2 validated BFS-SF against potential confounds of state boredom and curiosity. Study 3 demonstrated measurement invariance across samples and genders using the combined samples. Taken together, our findings demonstrate that the BFS-SF can be further reduced to 9 items, is well explained by a two-factor model, and most importantly it is valid and reliable measurement of boredom proneness.