期刊
CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
卷 22, 期 4, 页码 1412-1421出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.09.012
关键词
Mind-wandering; Negative mood; Mental time travel; Current concerns; Experience sampling
资金
- ESRC [ES/F037449/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/F037449/1, 1105260] Funding Source: researchfish
Mind-wandering is closely connected with negative mood. Whether negative mood is a cause or consequence of mind-wandering remains an important, unresolved, issue. We sought to clarify the direction of this relationship by measuring mood before and after mind-wandering. We also measured the affective content, time-orientation and relevance of mind-wandering to current concerns to explore whether the link between mind-wandering and negative mood might be explained by these characteristics. A novel experience-sampling technique with smartphone application prompted participants to answer questions about mind-wandering and mood across 7 days. While sadness tended to precede mind-wandering, mind-wandering itself was not associated with later mood and only predicted feeling worse if its content was negative. We also found prior sadness predicted retrospective mind-wandering, and prior negative mood predicted mind-wandering to current concerns. Our findings provide new insight into how mood and mind-wandering relate but suggest mind-wandering is not inherently detrimental to well-being. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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