Complete the summary below. Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.

Responses to boredom

For John Eastwood, the central feature of boredom is that people cannot [1] due to a failure in what he calls the ‘attention system’, and as a result they become frustrated and irritable. His team suggests that those for whom [2] is an important aim in life may have problems in coping with boredom, whereas those who have the characteristic of [3] can generally cope with it.