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The Disappearance of Boredom: Are Children Losing the Opportunity to Learn How to Be Bored?

Can Sıkıntısının Kayboluşu: Çocuklar Sıkılmayı Öğrenme Fırsatını mı Kaybediyor?

Fatma Zehra Kirşan(HATAY MUSTAFA KEMAL UNIVERSITY)0009-0005-2014-0662
Pages
263–266
Publication Date
2026-10-02
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This view is supported by proposing to conceptualize everyday boredom as a kind of 'developmental micro-stressor', and attention is drawn to the need for longitudinal research examining how boredom proneness, parental responses, and digital device use relate to the development of self-regulation.

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Objective & Hypothesis:In the lives of today's children, unstructured time is becoming increasingly rare, and the resulting gaps are quickly filled with digital content.
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Key Findings & Data:A familiar mechanism from the literature, the concept of family accommodation, is extended to the context of boredom; it is proposed that a parent's habit of resolving the child's distress with a ready-made solution every time may reduce the child's opportunity to generate solutions of their own.
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Conclusion & Impact:This view is supported by proposing to conceptualize everyday boredom as a kind of 'developmental micro-stressor', and attention is drawn to the need for longitudinal research examining how boredom proneness, parental responses, and digital device use relate to the development of self-regulation.
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Abstract

In the lives of today's children, unstructured time is becoming increasingly rare, and the resulting gaps are quickly filled with digital content. This paper argues that, in trying to eliminate children's boredom, we may also be eliminating their opportunity to learn to cope with this emotion on their own. A familiar mechanism from the literature, the concept of family accommodation, is extended to the context of boredom; it is proposed that a parent's habit of resolving the child's distress with a ready-made solution every time may reduce the child's opportunity to generate solutions of their own. This view is supported by proposing to conceptualize everyday boredom as a kind of 'developmental micro-stressor', and attention is drawn to the need for longitudinal research examining how boredom proneness, parental responses, and digital device use relate to the development of self-regulation.

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Günümüz çocuklarının yaşamında yapılandırılmamış zaman giderek azalmakta ve ortaya çıkan boşluklar dijital içeriklerle hızla doldurulmaktadır. Bu yazıda, çocukların can sıkıntısını ortadan kaldırmaya çalışırken onlara bu duyguyla kendi başlarına baş etmeyi öğrenme fırsatını da tanımıyor olabileceğimiz tartışılmaktadır. Literatürdeki tanıdık bir mekanizma olan aile uyumu kavramı can sıkıntısı bağlamına taşınmakta; ebeveynin çocuğun sıkıntısını her seferinde bir çözümle gidermesinin, çocuğun kendi çözümünü üretme fırsatını azaltabileceği öne sürülmektedir. Bu görüş, gündelik can sıkıntısının bir tür 'gelişimsel mikro-stresör' olarak kavramsallaştırılması önerisiyle desteklenmekte ve can sıkıntısına yatkınlık ebeveyn yanıtları ile dijital cihaz kullanımının öz-düzenleme gelişimiyle ilişkisini konu alan boylamsal araştırmalara duyulan ihtiyaca dikkat çekilmektedir.

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Kirşan, F. Z. (2026). The Disappearance of Boredom: Are Children Losing the Opportunity to Learn How to Be Bored?. Sosyal Sağlık Dergisi, Sayı: 2026, 263–266. https://doi.org/10.69514/sosyalsaglik.2022379

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