Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Universidade do Vale dos Sinos, São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil.
Laboratório de Pânico e Respiração, Instituto de Psiquiatria (IPUB), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Braz J Psychiatry. 2024;46:e20233312. doi: 10.47626/1516-4446-2023-3312. Epub 2023 Nov 23.
To adapt the Mind-Wandering Questionnaire (MWQ) for the Brazilian context and present evidence of validity based on its internal structure.
A total of 2,682 Brazilian adults from different regions of the country took part in this study. Confirmatory factor analyses and multigroup confirmatory factor analyses (MGCFA) were performed to assess the factor structure of the MWQ. McDonald's omega (ω) was generated to provide reliability indexes.
The analyses demonstrated an adequate factor structure for the MWQ adapted to the Brazilian context, corroborating the original article's single-factor model and other adaptation studies. Furthermore, the results demonstrated the instrument's reliability in a Brazilian population (ω = 0.88).
The MWQ is thus an adequate, reliable, and quickly administered instrument for those whose aim is to measure deliberate and spontaneous MW in Brazil.
使思维游移问卷（MWQ）适应巴西国情，并基于其内部结构提供有效性的证据。
本研究共有来自巴西不同地区的 2682 名成年人参与。采用验证性因子分析和多组验证性因子分析（MGCFA）来评估 MWQ 的因子结构。麦氏 ω（ω）用于提供可靠性指标。
分析表明，MWQ 适应巴西国情的因子结构良好，证实了原始文章的单因子模型和其他适应研究。此外，研究结果表明，该工具在巴西人群中具有可靠性（ω=0.88）。
因此，MWQ 是一种适用于在巴西测量有意和自发思维游移的、可靠且快速的工具。
