A Personality Trait-Based Network of Boredom, Spontaneous and Deliberate Mind-Wandering. (December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Martarelli, Corinna S.; Bertrams, Alex; Wolff, Wanja
• Is Part Of: Assessment. Volume 28:Number 8(2021)
• Page Start: 1915
• Page End: 1931
• Publication Date: 2021-12
• Subjects: deliberate mind-wandering -- spontaneous mind-wandering -- boredom -- confirmatory factor analysis -- measurement invariance -- exploratory graph analysis -- German version; Psychological tests -- Periodicals; Psychodiagnostics -- Periodicals; Personality tests -- Periodicals; 150.287
• DOI: 10.1177/1073191120936336
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1073-1911

Abstract

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.