Ian Kwok, Emily Gardiner Lattie, Dershung Yang, Amanda Summers, Paul Cotten, Caroline Alina Leong, Judith Tedlie Moskowitz
Developing Social Enhancements for a Web-Based, Positive Emotion Intervention for Alzheimer Disease Caregivers: Qualitative Focus Group and Interview Study
JMIR formative research
mind wandering generally considered endogenous mental state arises spontaneously one common experiences consciousness typically occurs significant cost mental health behavioral performance previous studies shown mind wandering appears stable trait assessed reliably adults surprisingly little however known measure frequency mind wandering children given children accurately introspect experiences present studies aimed develop frequency childrens mind wandering scale cmwsf context childrens mind wandering scale cmwsc assess frequency mind wandering contexts mind wandering occurs children aged 8 11 years exploratory factor analysis efa confirmatory factor analysis cfa used develop cmwsf cmwsc assess validity scales compared scores cmwsfcmwsc frequencies probecaught mind wandering typical tasks study 1a efa n 292 cfa n 346 showed attentional failure spontaneous thinking two main dimensions cmwsf study 1b contexts mind wandering children could divided highdemand lowdemand contexts using efa n 258 cfa n 347 study 2 showed moderate positive correlations frequencies probecaught mind wandering tasks scores scales results showed scores two scales could predict performance experimental tasks demonstrated empirical validity cmwsf cmwsc scales taken together results current studies provided preliminary evidence validity reliability cmwsf cmwsc children used reference balance downsides productive aspects mind wandering