Vad händer när ingenting händer? En studie om att "göra ingenting" och dess relation till självreflektion
Sammanfattning: Our ability, and in extension our need, to constantly be stimulated has increased dramatically in the recent decades. We humans seem to have a hard time just being, and when we find ourselves in these situations we tend to seek stimuli as quickly as possible, and to some extent even negative ones. The purpose of the current study was to examine people’s relationship to “doing nothing” and whether it could be related to self-reflection. The study was conducted using an internet-based survey about “doing nothing” and was designed on the basis of Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Self-Reflection and Insight Scale (SRIS). The sample consisted of 102 individuals reached with a convenience sample. To see how much of the intention to “do nothing” that could be explained by TPB, a multiple regression was performed, and the model showed a significant result explaining 27% of the variance. Another regression analysis was done to evaluate how much of the variance for “self-reflection” that could be explained by the intention to “do nothing”, which turned out to be 12%. The participants seemed to strongly agree on the positive effects of doing nothing, but did not seem as likely to actually engage in the behavior, which is discussed based on the evolutionary drive within humans to seek new stimuli. Thus, the conclusion was drawn that many other factors underlie both “doing nothing” and self-reflection. Future studies are suggested to include personality variables as possible factors, as well as the use of experimental methods.
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