@article{ref1,
title="Adolescents' fire-setting awareness under boredom: relation to personality variables",
journal="Psychological reports",
year="2004",
author="Perrin-Wallqvist, Renée and Archer, Trevor and Norlander, Torsten",
volume="94",
number="3",
pages="863-871",
abstract="The present study assessed whether or not there is a relation between fire-setting and boredom. 56 Swedish secondary-school students, 28 adolescent boys and 28 adolescent girls, were randomly assigned to a Control group and an Experimental [Boredom] group divided equally by sex. Participants were required to complete a projective test, a short story the content of which depicted a bored individual fingering a box of matches or lighter and with a bus ticket in his pocket. The Experimental [Boredom] group completed a 15-min. &quot;boredom&quot; test before anticipating the fictional narrative, while the Control group participated in relaxing activities. Two mutually independent judges evaluated the written stories from three standpoints: the number of fictitious fires, the relation to fire, and the boredom in the written stories. The results indicated a significant difference between the Experimental [Boredom] group and the Control group concerning relation to fire.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-2941",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}