Components of mind wandering.

<p> <i>Notes:</i></p><p>1) The Chi-Square value was calculated with the Friedman test for the multiple comparison of the percentage of every component.</p><p>2) <i>Z</i> value was calculated with the Wilcoxon signed-rank test for the percentage of episodic mind wandering with other components.</p><p>3) <i>N</i> = 154.</p

Mind Wandering in Chinese Daily Lives – An Experience Sampling Study

<div><p>Mind wandering has recently received extensive research because it reveals an important characteristic of our consciousness: conscious experience can arise internally and involuntarily. As the first attempt to examine mind wandering in a non-western population, the present study used experience-sampling method to collect the daily momentary mind wandering episodes in a Chinese sample. The results showed that mind wandering was also a ubiquitous experience among the Chinese population, and, instead of emerging out of nowhere, it was often elicited by external or internal cues. Furthermore, most of the mind wandering episodes involved prospective thinking and were closely related to one’s personal life. Finally, the frequency of mind wandering was influenced by some contextual factors. These results taken together suggest that mind wandering plays an important role in helping people to maintain a continuous feeling of “self” and to prepare them to cope with the upcoming events.</p> </div

You-are-there feeling and emotional valence of episodic mind wandering.

<p> <i>Notes:</i></p><p>The table showed the results of the one sample t test for the scores of the Likert Scales nested in episodic option, which were compared with the median 3.</p

Contextual predictors of the occurrence of mind wandering.

<p> <i>Notes:</i></p><p>1) Only data of 121 participants were included in this analysis because the other 44 participants, after giving a “NO” response to the first question (At the time of the beep, my mind had wandered to something other than what I was doing?), did not answer the items about the context that follow.</p><p>2) Samples that made a “YES” response to Q7 (Being on task) were modeled separately with Q7.1–Q7.5 as the predictors.</p><p>3) To Q1 and Q7, the answer “YES” was coded as “1” and “NO” was coded as “0”. And the other items used the original codes (same as below);</p><p>4) *** <i>p</i><0.001,</p>**<p><i>p</i><0.01,</p>*<p><i>p</i><0.05 (same as below).</p

The correlation between the participants’ mood before probe and the emotional valence of episodic mind wandering.

<p> <i>Note:</i></p><p>The values in the tables are the correlation coefficients.</p