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Background <p>Idleness is a common experience that can serve as a source of distress. The present set of three studies provides preliminary evidence of associations between the tendency to worry and idleness distress.</p> Methods <p>Associations were examined across cross-sectional (Study 1, <i>N</i> = 591 U.S. adults recruited through a crowdsourcing website), prospective (Study 2, <i>N</i> = 180 college students who completed an idleness task, on average, 27 days after an assessment of worry), and randomized experimental (Study 3, college students randomized to an idleness task, <i>n</i> = 85, or a monotonous video viewing control task, <i>n</i> = 83) study designs.</p> Results <p>Study 1 found a positive association (<i>r</i> = .45, <i>p</i> &lt; .001) between worry and a self-report measure of finding inactivity distressing. Study 2 found that worry prospectively predicted self-reported distress in response to a later attended idleness task (<i>r</i> = .33, <i>p</i> &lt; .001), with worry further predicting regressed changes in distress (β = 0.14, <i>p</i> = .027) from pre-to-post task. Study 3 found that randomized task moderated the relation between worry and self-reported task distress, with worry positively associated with distress in the idleness (β = 0.27, <i>p</i> = .007), but not control (β = − 0.03, <i>p</i> = .729), condition. Exploratory analyses found no relation between depression symptom severity and distress in Study 3.</p> Conclusions <p>Results support the tendency to worry being associated with greater idleness distress. Implications are discussed in terms of how idleness fits within existing conceptual models of worry.</p>

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Worry Positively Relates to Distress During Idleness: Cross-Sectional, Prospective, and Experimental Evidence

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    2026年5月26日

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  • Thomas A. Fergus,
  • Taryn E. Cook,
  • Sarah-Beth Garner,
  • Annie T. Ginty

摘要

Background

Idleness is a common experience that can serve as a source of distress. The present set of three studies provides preliminary evidence of associations between the tendency to worry and idleness distress.

Methods

Associations were examined across cross-sectional (Study 1, N = 591 U.S. adults recruited through a crowdsourcing website), prospective (Study 2, N = 180 college students who completed an idleness task, on average, 27 days after an assessment of worry), and randomized experimental (Study 3, college students randomized to an idleness task, n = 85, or a monotonous video viewing control task, n = 83) study designs.

Results

Study 1 found a positive association (r = .45, p < .001) between worry and a self-report measure of finding inactivity distressing. Study 2 found that worry prospectively predicted self-reported distress in response to a later attended idleness task (r = .33, p < .001), with worry further predicting regressed changes in distress (β = 0.14, p = .027) from pre-to-post task. Study 3 found that randomized task moderated the relation between worry and self-reported task distress, with worry positively associated with distress in the idleness (β = 0.27, p = .007), but not control (β = − 0.03, p = .729), condition. Exploratory analyses found no relation between depression symptom severity and distress in Study 3.

Conclusions

Results support the tendency to worry being associated with greater idleness distress. Implications are discussed in terms of how idleness fits within existing conceptual models of worry.