Table 3.
Study Quality Assessment
| Assessment Criterion | Breen (2009) | Clarke & Clarkson (2008) | Ejaz et al. (1997) | Iso-Ahola & Weissinger (1987) | Lobo (1996) | Losada et al. 2015 | Searle et al. (1995) |
Searle et al. (1998) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Research question | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2. Representative population | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 3. Subject selection | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 4. Sample size | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5. Boredom explained | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| 6. Leisure explained | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 |
| 7. Boredom measurement | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 |
| 8. Leisure measurement | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 9. Sufficient time frame | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 |
| 10. Control compounding factors | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 5 | 4.5 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| Quality category | Moderate | Moderate | High | High | Moderate | Moderate | High | High |