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Diaz BA, Van Der Sluis S, Benjamins JS, et al. The ARSQ 2.0 reveals age and personality effects on mind-wandering experiences. Front Psychol. 2014;5:271doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00271.
Diaz, B. A., Van Der Sluis, S., Benjamins, J. S., Stoffers, D., Hardstone, R., Mansvelder, H. D., Van Someren, E. J., & Linkenkaer-Hansen, K. (2014). The ARSQ 2.0 reveals age and personality effects on mind-wandering experiences. Frontiers in psychology, 5271. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00271
Diaz, B Alexander, et al. "The ARSQ 2.0 reveals age and personality effects on mind-wandering experiences." Frontiers in psychology vol. 5 (2014): 271. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00271
Diaz BA, Van Der Sluis S, Benjamins JS, Stoffers D, Hardstone R, Mansvelder HD, Van Someren EJ, Linkenkaer-Hansen K. The ARSQ 2.0 reveals age and personality effects on mind-wandering experiences. Front Psychol. 2014 Apr 03;5:271. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00271. eCollection 2014. PMID: 24772097; PMCID: PMC3982068.
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Front Psychol. 2014 Apr 03;5:271. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00271. eCollection 2014.

The ARSQ 2.0 reveals age and personality effects on mind-wandering experiences.

Frontiers in psychology

B Alexander Diaz, Sophie Van Der Sluis, Jeroen S Benjamins, Diederick Stoffers, Richard Hardstone, Huibert D Mansvelder, Eus J W Van Someren, Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen

Affiliations

  1. Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  2. Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University Amsterdam and VU Medical Center Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  3. Department of Sleep and Cognition,Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  4. Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Department of Sleep and Cognition,Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  5. Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Department of Sleep and Cognition,Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Department of Medical Psychology, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, Netherlands.

PMID: 24772097 PMCID: PMC3982068 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00271

Abstract

The human brain frequently generates thoughts and feelings detached from environmental demands. Investigating the rich repertoire of these mind-wandering experiences is challenging, as it depends on introspection and mapping its content requires an unknown number of dimensions. We recently developed a retrospective self-report questionnaire-the Amsterdam Resting-State Questionnaire (ARSQ)-which quantifies mind wandering along seven dimensions: "Discontinuity of Mind," "Theory of Mind," "Self," "Planning," "Sleepiness," "Comfort," and "Somatic Awareness." Here, we show using confirmatory factor analysis that the ARSQ can be simplified by standardizing the number of items per factor and extending it to a 10-dimensional model, adding "Health Concern," "Visual Thought," and "Verbal Thought." We will refer to this extended ARSQ as the "ARSQ 2.0." Testing for effects of age and gender revealed no main effect for gender, yet a moderate and significant negative effect for age on the dimensions of "Self," "Planning," and "Visual Thought." Interestingly, we observed stable and significant test-retest correlations across measurement intervals of 3-32 months except for "Sleepiness" and "Health Concern." To investigate whether this stability could be related to personality traits, we correlated ARSQ scores to proxy measures of Cloninger's Temperament and Character Inventory, revealing multiple significant associations for the trait "Self-Directedness." Other traits correlated to specific ARSQ dimensions, e.g., a negative association between "Harm Avoidance" and "Comfort." Together, our results suggest that the ARSQ 2.0 is a promising instrument for quantitative studies on mind wandering and its relation to other psychological or physiological phenomena.

Keywords: Amsterdam Resting-State Questionnaire (ARSQ); consciousness; mind wandering; personality traits; test-retest reliability

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