Abstract: In order to explore the relationship between college students' boredom, cognitive failure, subjective well-being and online
game addiction, a total of 615 college students were investigated by BPS, Cognitive Failure Questionnaire, Overall Happiness Scale and
Online Game Addiction Scale. Results showed that there was a significant positive correlation between boredom, cognitive failure and
online game addiction, but a significant negative correlation with subjective well-being. Boredom has a direct positive predictive effect
on online game addiction. Cognitive failure has an intermediary effect between the boring tendency and online game addiction, but the
intermediary chain among cognitive failure, subjective well-being in the boring tendency and online game addiction could not be
established. The boredom of college students not only has an important direct effect on their online game addiction, but also impacts the
online game addiction by means of influencing cognitive failure and happiness.

Key words: boredom, online game addiction, cognitive failure, subjective well-being