人们常常感叹:“无聊死了”。但是“无聊”真的会致死么？

       近期伦敦芝加哥大学的Annie Britton和Martin Shipley博士的一项研究显示，无聊真的有可能致死。研究中，研究者研究了1985年至1988年寄往英国civil servant的一批问卷，这些问卷测量了被试感到无聊的频率和程度。研究者追踪回访了这些被试，试图分析健在者与已故者的特征。研究发现，无聊感强烈的人寿命短。那些报告无聊的人，比常人患心血管疾病的可能性高2.5倍。而且其中多数是年轻的、失业女性，这些人群往往伴随着身体欠佳，缺乏运动等特征。
       究其原因，研究者认为“无聊”会使人们形成不良的行为习惯，例如过度饮酒、抽烟和滥用毒品。
 
Can you be bored to death? Possibly, suggests work by Annie Britton, PhD, and Martin J. Shipley, PhD, at University College London. In an in-press article in the International Journal of Epidemiology, the researchers analyzed questionnaires sent to British civil servants between 1985 and 1988 that measured their levels and frequency of boredom. They looked up whether these people were still alive, and if not, when and how they died. They found that people who reported greater levels of boredom tended to die at a younger age than those who weren’t very bored. Bored people in the study, who were two-and-a-half times more likely to die of cardiovascular disease, tended to be younger, underemployed women who reported relatively poor health and low physical activity. Researchers suspect that boredom makes people prone to harmful behaviors such as excessive drinking, smoking and drug abuse.