Seli Paul, Risko Evan F, Smilek Daniel
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Conscious Cogn. 2016 Apr;41:50-6. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2016.02.002. Epub 2016 Feb 11.
Recent research has demonstrated that mind wandering can be subdivided into spontaneous and deliberate types, and this distinction has been found to hold at both the trait and state levels. However, to date, no attempts have been made to link trait-level spontaneous and deliberate mind wandering with state-level assessments of these two subtypes of mind wandering. Here we evaluated whether trait-level deliberate and spontaneous mind wandering map onto state levels of these subtypes of mind wandering. Results showed correspondence between trait-level reports of spontaneous and deliberate mind wandering and their state-level counterparts, indicating that people's reports on the intentionality of their mind wandering in the laboratory correspond to their reports of the intentionality of mind wandering in everyday life. Thus, the trait- and state-level scales of mind wandering were found to validate each other: Whereas the state-level measures provided some construct validity for the trait-level measures, the trait-level measures indicated that the state-level measures may be generalizable to everyday situations.
最近的研究表明，走神可以细分为自发型和刻意型，并且这种区分在特质和状态层面都成立。然而，迄今为止，尚未有人尝试将特质层面的自发和刻意走神与这两种走神亚型的状态层面评估联系起来。在此，我们评估了特质层面的刻意和自发走神是否能映射到这些走神亚型的状态层面。结果显示，特质层面自发和刻意走神的报告与其状态层面的对应情况相符，这表明人们在实验室中对其走神意向性的报告与他们在日常生活中对走神意向性的报告一致。因此，发现走神的特质和状态层面量表相互验证：虽然状态层面的测量为特质层面的测量提供了一定的结构效度，但特质层面的测量表明状态层面的测量可能适用于日常情境。
