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The Boredom Proneness Scale (BPS) is the only full-scale designed to assess the propensity to boredom. This scale is a theoretical. The aim of the present study was twofold: (a) replicate the factorial structure of the BPS, and (b) examine whether the BPS scores specifically capture trait boredom or are confounded by the state of participants when they complete the BPS. For this second purpose a trait-state-occasion model (TSO) was applied to BPS scores obtained at four time points over a 6-year period among a sample of community-dwelling elderly persons. Our findings showed that the factorial structure of the BPS was not replicable. They also showed that the short-version of the BPS, comprising 8 items, was the best representation of our data. Results from the TSO revealed that only 28% of the variance in the BPS-8 scores were imputable to trait-boredom component. Thus, 72% of this variance were due to …