Off-task thinking among adults with and without social anxiety disorder: an ecological momentary assessment study

Arch, Joanna J.; Wilcox, Ramsey; Ives, Lindsay; Sroloff, Aylah; Andrews‐Hanna, Jessica R.

doi:10.1080/02699931.2020.1830751

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“…Schizotypal traits not only directly predicted satisfaction with life, but were also associated with high trait anxiety, which in turn related to high frequency of mind wandering, which was associated with a low level of satisfaction with life. The results are consistent with previous studies showing that higher trait anxiety was related to increased rates of mind wandering (Figueiredo et al, 2020; Forster et al, 2015) as well as individuals with social anxiety disorder reporting more frequent internally oriented mind wandering (Arch et al, 2021). This might be because anxiety was associated with attention control impairments, particularly inhibition and switching, and these deficits might be related to higher mind wandering in anxious individuals (Eysenck et al, 2007; Shi et al, 2019).…”

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The relationship between schizotypal traits and satisfaction with life among Chinese young adults: The mediating effect of trait anxiety and mind wandering

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Schizotypal traits have been found to be negatively associated with satisfaction with life but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. This study investigated the association between schizotypal traits and satisfaction with life and explored the mediating role of trait anxiety and mind wandering in the relationship between those two variables in a sample of Chinese young adults. One hundred and two individuals with high schizotypal traits and 104 individuals with low schizotypal traits were screened using the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire. They completed a series of questionnaires including the Satisfaction with Life Scale, Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Mind Wandering Questionnaire. Results showed that: First, the high schizotypal trait group showed lower satisfaction with life, and higher trait anxiety and mind wandering frequency than the low schizotypal trait group. Second, the high schizotypal trait group, trait anxiety, and mind wandering negatively predicted satisfaction with life. Third, mediation analyses showed that all indirect effect paths in the mediation model were significant, that is, trait anxiety and mind wandering alone and together mediated the relationship between schizotypal trait group and satisfaction with life. In conclusion, high schizotypal trait is a risk factor for low satisfaction with life. The association between schizotypal traits and satisfaction with life was mediated by the combination of trait anxiety and mind wandering. This study has implications for improving life satisfaction in individuals with high schizotypal traits.

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“…Our findings indicate that anxiety and depression are strongly related to MW, independent of ADHD symptoms. Mason et al (2007), Seli et al (2019), andArch et al (2020) already demonstrated the relationship of anxiety and depressive symptoms with MW. Those authors suggest that ADHD symptoms are probably a significant predictor only of spontaneous MW.…”

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Disentangling the Phenomenology of Mind-Wandering

Figueiredo

Mattos

2021

J Atten Disord

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Objective In the last decade, the research about mind-wandering (MW) significantly improved and allowed us to depth the phenomenology of thoughts. Prototypically, excessive MW was linked with ADHD symptoms. However, many studies have demonstrated the need to relate the type of mind-wandering with specific phenomenological presentations. Method Participants ( N = 53; 54.7% male; age range 18–36 years) selfreported the Mind Excessively Wandering Scale (MEWS), and they were investigated for ADHD, impulsivity levels, and anxiety/depressive symptoms. Results The exploratory analysis indicated a meaningful correlation between MEWS and anxiety traits and depressive symptoms. There was no significant relationship with ADHD symptoms. Conclusion These findings based our discussion about MW’s phenomenology considering the novel classification model based on the consideration of clinical markers such as thoughts’ content.

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“…To provide more insight into the role of state versus trait factors, future studies could (a) employ mood induction techniques to directly manipulate state affect and cognition, (b) compare FAST responses to participants’ thinking assessed outside of the lab using Ecological Momentary Assessment (Arch et al, 2021; Kircanski et al, 2015), or (c) administer the Autobiographical Thought Sampling task and the FAST task on different days. The latter option would also help address the possible limitation that thoughts recalled during the Autobiographical Thought Sampling task may have been “primed” by the FAST task, which always occurred first.…”

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The conceptual building blocks of everyday thought: Tracking the emergence and dynamics of ruminative and nonruminative thinking.

Andrews‐Hanna¹,

Woo²,

Wilcox³

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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How do thoughts arise, unfold, and change over time? Are the contents and dynamics of everyday thought rooted in conceptual associations within one’s semantic networks? To address these questions, we developed the Free Association Semantic task (FAST), whereby participants generate dynamic chains of conceptual associations in response to seed words that vary in valence. Ninety-four adults from a community sample completed the FAST task and additionally described and rated six of their most frequently occurring everyday thoughts. Text analysis and valence ratings revealed similarities in thematic and affective content between FAST concept chains and recurrent autobiographical thoughts. Dynamic analyses revealed that individuals higher in rumination were more strongly attracted to negative conceptual spaces and more likely to remain there longer. Overall, these findings provide quantitative evidence that conceptual associations may act as a semantic scaffold for more complex everyday thoughts, and that more negative and less dynamic conceptual associations in ruminative individuals mirror maladaptive repetitive thoughts in daily life.

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Off-task thinking among adults with and without social anxiety disorder: an ecological momentary assessment study

Cited by 14 publications

References 41 publications

The relationship between schizotypal traits and satisfaction with life among Chinese young adults: The mediating effect of trait anxiety and mind wandering

The relationship between schizotypal traits and satisfaction with life among Chinese young adults: The mediating effect of trait anxiety and mind wandering

Disentangling the Phenomenology of Mind-Wandering

The conceptual building blocks of everyday thought: Tracking the emergence and dynamics of ruminative and nonruminative thinking.

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