Department of Psychology, George Mason University, USA.
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, USA.
Appl Ergon. 2023 Jul;110:104011. doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2023.104011. Epub 2023 Mar 9.
Much of the thought content and mind-wandering literature examines self-reported thought content's relationship with performance criteria in limited ways. Furthermore, retrospective reports about thought content may be influenced by the quality of one's performance. We explored these method issues in a cross-sectional study of individuals competing in a trail race and an equestrian event. Our results demonstrated that self-reports of thought content differed based on the performance context: whereas runners' task-related and task-unrelated thoughts were negatively correlated, equestrians' thought content showed no relationship. Moreover, equestrians in general reported fewer task-related and task-unrelated thoughts than runners. Finally, objective performance predicted task-unrelated thought (but not task-related thought) among runners, and an exploratory mediation test suggested the effect was partially mediated by performance awareness. We discuss the applied implications of this research for human performance practitioners.
很多关于思维内容和思维漫游的文献都是以有限的方式来检验自我报告的思维内容与绩效标准之间的关系。此外，对思维内容的回溯性报告可能会受到一个人表现质量的影响。我们在一项横断研究中探讨了这些方法问题，该研究对象是参加越野赛跑和马术比赛的个体。我们的结果表明，自我报告的思维内容因表现情境而异：跑步者的与任务相关的和与任务无关的想法呈负相关，而马术运动员的思维内容则没有关系。此外，马术运动员普遍报告的与任务相关的和与任务无关的想法比跑步者少。最后，客观表现预测了跑步者的与任务无关的想法（但不是与任务相关的想法），而探索性中介测试表明，这种效应部分是通过绩效意识来中介的。我们讨论了这项研究对人类绩效从业者的应用意义。
