ERIC Number: EJ1110655
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 15
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Students' Level of Boredom, Boredom Coping Strategies, Epistemic Curiosity, and Graded Performance
Eren, Altay; Coskun, Hamit
Journal of Educational Research, v109 n6 p574-588 2016
The authors examined the relationships among students' levels of boredom, boredom coping strategies, epistemic curiosity, and graded performance regarding mathematics lessons, with the intention to explore the mediating roles of boredom coping strategies and epistemic curiosity in the relationship between the level of boredom and graded performance. A total of 557 students from a small city located in the Western Black Sea region of Turkey voluntarily participated in the study. Of them, 211 enrolled in an Anatolian high school and 346 enrolled in a science high school. Results showed that the level of boredom, boredom coping strategies, epistemic curiosity, and graded performance were significantly related to each other. Results also showed that deprivation-type epistemic curiosity and interest-type epistemic curiosity played significant mediating roles in the relationship between the level of boredom and graded performance. Notably, the mediating roles of interest-type epistemic curiosity and deprivation-type epistemic curiosity differed across gender groups.
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Coping, Learning Strategies, Personality Traits, High School Students, Foreign Countries, Grades (Scholastic), Secondary School Mathematics, Correlation, Student Interests, Stimuli, Likert Scales, Hypothesis Testing, Regression (Statistics), Structural Equation Models, Epistemology
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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