Boredom Proneness Scale 1

According to studies performed by several different sources – Vodanovic‚ Ahmed‚ Watt – the BPS is a valid and reliable test. These studies showed alpha scores for the internal consistency and the test-retest reliability at 0.83 and 0.79 respectively.

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