Children with positive attitudes towards mind-wandering provide invalid subjective reports of mind-wandering during an experimental task

Zhang, Yi; Song, Xiaolan; Ye, Qun; Wang, Qinqin

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2015.05.006

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“…However, it is also possible that diagnosed children have more experience of reflecting upon their cognitive functioning, after receiving a clinical assessment and some kind of intervention, which could inflate the results. Partly in line with this, Zhang and colleges have argued that children with negative attitudes towards MW provided more valid subjective reports of the phenomenon that children with positive attitudes (Zhang, Song, Ye, & Wang, ). In addition, we examined the effect of MW beyond ADHD symptoms in children.…”

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confidence: 73%

Mind‐wandering in children with and without ADHD

Frick

Asherson²,

Brocki

2019

British J Clinic Psychol

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Objectives. Mind-wandering (MW) is a commonly experienced phenomenon, characterized by focus of attention drifting away from the present situation to intrinsically originated thoughts. Studies in adults show that MW is related to ADHD symptoms, but this association is understudied in children. We set out to investigate the associations of MW in children with and without ADHD and to simultaneously validate the self-report Mind Excessively Wandering Scale (MEWS) in children.Design. We used a cross-sectional, correlational, design to examine the research questions.Methods. The sample consisted of 82 children (61 boys) aged 8-13 years (m = 10.46), of which 35 had a diagnosis of ADHD. Children rated MW; parents and teachers rated ADHD symptoms, emotion regulation and academic achievement. Working memory was assessed with Digit Span.Results. MW was positively related to ADHD symptoms, and the MEWS could differentiate between cases and controls with a sensitivity of 0.71 and specificity of 0.81. Psychometric properties of the MEWS were satisfactory. In addition, MW contributed independently to working memory (R 2 D = .05, p = .01) and emotion regulation (R 2 D = .04, p = .04) beyond ADHD symptoms.Conclusions. MW is elevated in children with ADHD and contributes to functional domains. The MEWS is a valid tool for assessing MW in children, and the results are mostly comparable to that of adults (Mowlem et al., 2016, Journal of Attention Disorders, 23, 624), suggesting a similar relationship of MW to ADHD across the lifespan. Practitioner pointsSpontaneous mind-wandering is elevated in children with ADHD compared to children without a diagnosis. Elevated spontaneous mind-wandering predicts lower working memory, emotion regulation and academic achievement beyond ADHD symptoms, IQ and socio-economic status. Clinicians should consider evaluating excessive spontaneous mind-wandering and targeting it as an important outcome when treating children with ADHD. The MEWS is a valid tool for assessing excessive mind-wandering in children.

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confidence: 73%

Mind‐wandering in children with and without ADHD

Frick

Asherson²,

Brocki

2019

British J Clinic Psychol

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“…68 ). As certain subtypes of spontaneous cognitive processes are detectable in time-varying functional connectivity measurements 68 , it could be hypothesized that part of our results might pertain to the age-related changes in the occurrence of mind wandering episodes and in the content/type of spontaneous cognitive processes observed from childhood to young adulthood and from young to late adulthood 63,[69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77] . Further studies should investigate this critical issue.…”

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Changes in electrophysiological static and dynamic human brain functional architecture from childhood to late adulthood

Coquelet

Wens

Mary

et al. 2020

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This magnetoencephalography study aimed at characterizing age-related changes in resting-state functional brain organization from mid-childhood to late adulthood. We investigated neuromagnetic brain activity at rest in 105 participants divided into three age groups: children (6-9 years), young adults (18-34 years) and healthy elders (53-78 years). The effects of age on static resting-state functional integration were assessed using band-limited power envelope correlation, whereas those on transient functional dynamics were disclosed using hidden Markov modeling of power envelope activity. Brain development from childhood to adulthood came with (i) a strengthening of functional integration within and between resting-state networks and (ii) an increased temporal stability of transient (100-300 ms lifetime) and recurrent states of network activation or deactivation mainly encompassing lateral or medial associative neocortical areas. Healthy aging was characterized by decreased static resting-state functional integration and dynamical stability within the visual network. These results based on electrophysiological measurements free of neurovascular biases suggest that functional brain integration mainly evolves during brain development, with limited changes in healthy aging.These novel electrophysiological insights into human brain functional architecture across the lifespan pave the way for future clinical studies investigating how brain disorders affect brain development or healthy aging.

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“…Similar issues concerning the need for equating the difficulty of ongoing (vigilance) tasks in different age groups arise in relation to studying spontaneous future (and past) thoughts in children, and especially in very young children who may also have difficulties in meta-awareness or noticing and reporting spontaneous thoughts-more so than older adults (e.g., see Chen, 2013, cited in Ye, Song, Zhang, & Wang, 2014. Because of these difficulties, there are currently less than a handful studies on mind-wandering in older children and adolescents (e.g., Ye et al, 2014;Van den Driessche et al, 2017;Stawarczyk et al, 2014;Zhang, Song, Ye, & Wang, 2013), with virtually no developmental studies on children's spontaneous future thinking. The studies reported by McCormack et al and Caza and Atance in this issue are therefore starting to fill this gap in the literature by developing and testing new methods that have resulted in important new insights on children's spontaneous future thinking ability and its relationship with its voluntary counterpart.…”

Section: Development Across the Life Spanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spontaneous future cognition: the past, present and future of an emerging topic

Cole

Kvavilashvili

2019

Psychological Research

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In this Editorial, we discuss the past, present and future of an emerging and fast-developing field-spontaneous future cognition. In tracking the past of this research, the trajectories of research on mind-wandering, episodic future thinking and prospective memory are briefly examined, and their relation with spontaneous future cognition demarcated. Three broad methodological approaches (questionnaire, naturalistic and laboratory) used to study spontaneous future thoughts are described, providing an overview of the field. The present state of this research is represented by a themed analysis of the articles included in this Special Issue. The breadth of studies (covering cognitive mechanisms, developmental stages and psychopathology) have already led to important insights, especially concerning the conditions in which spontaneous future thoughts most commonly arise and who may be predisposed to experiencing them. In the future, greater effort should focus on developing a theoretical account of spontaneous future cognition-this may increase our understanding of how and why spontaneous future thoughts occur. If future research in this area reflects the diversity and depth within this Special Issue, a flourishing of research on spontaneous future cognition will be on the horizon in years or perhaps decades to come.

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Children with positive attitudes towards mind-wandering provide invalid subjective reports of mind-wandering during an experimental task

Cited by 20 publications

References 33 publications

Mind‐wandering in children with and without ADHD

Mind‐wandering in children with and without ADHD

Changes in electrophysiological static and dynamic human brain functional architecture from childhood to late adulthood

Spontaneous future cognition: the past, present and future of an emerging topic

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