Sport Psychology: New Publication
Assessing Boredom and Mind-Wandering.
In this paper, Chair of Sport Psychology Member Wanja Wolff collaborated with Corinna Martarelli (Swiss Distance University Institute) and Alex Bertrams (University of Bern) to assess the latent relationship between boredom, spontaneous mind-wandering and deliberate mind-wandering by using exploratory graph analysis. Further, they provided a German translation and validation of the short boredom proneness scale (SBPS) and the spontaneous and deliberate mind-wandering scales (SDMWS), thereby providing researchers with tools to assess these constructs in German-speaking samples. The full abstract of the paper can be found below:
“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.”
This contribution is an important first step to facilitate research on boredom and mind-wandering in the sports and exercise context. This is particularly important, since boredom has so far been neglected in sports and exercise research, although it might pose a powerful barrier that keeps people from regular physical activity.
The bibliographic information of the paper: Martarelli, C., Bertrams, A., & Wolff, W. (2020). A personality trait-based network of boredom, spontaneous and deliberate mind-wandering. Assessment. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191120936336