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A Personality Trait-Based Network of Boredom, Spontaneous and Deliberate Mind-Wandering.

  • Martarelli CS Swiss Distance University Institute, Brig, Switzerland.
  • Bertrams A University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
  • Wolff W University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
  • 2020-07-07
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  • Assessment. - 2020
German version
boredom
confirmatory factor analysis
deliberate mind-wandering
exploratory graph analysis
measurement invariance
spontaneous mind-wandering
English This article reports the translation into German and validation of two self-report measures of mind-wandering and boredom (the Spontaneous and Deliberate Mind-Wandering Scales and the Short Boredom Proneness Scale). Confirmatory factor analyses provided support for the original conceptualization of the constructs. To evaluate measurement invariance across samples, data were collected in a German-speaking sample (n = 418) and an English-speaking sample (n = 364). The results indicated weak measurement invariance. To explore the interplay between mind-wandering and boredom, we performed an exploratory graph analysis in the entire sample (N = 782), which revealed the structure of relationships between boredom and the two facets of mind-wandering. The results are discussed in the context of theoretical accounts of boredom and mind-wandering.
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