Croatian Translation and Validation of the Mind-Wandering Questionnaire (MWQ)

Abstract

This research aimed to translate and validate the Mind-Wandering Questionnaire (MWQ) to the Croatian language, and to provide preliminary data on its reliability, factor structure and convergent validity in a sample of Croatian students. After translation and adaptation, the Croatian version of the MWQ was administered to 451 eight-grade elementary school students (239 female and 212 male participants). With the MWQ, we administered the Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire (ESCQ-45). Results show high internal consistency of the Croatian translation of the MWQ. Confirmatory factor analysis supports an unidimensional model. Convergent validity was supported by a significant negative correlation between MWQ and Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire. We propose further investigation of psychometric properties of the Croatian translation of the MWQ and investigating test-retest reliability as well as discriminant validity of the Questionnaire.

The Four Factors of Mind Wandering Questionnaire: Content, Construct, and Clinical Validity

“…With respect to retrospective methods, the most commonly used MW questionnaires include (a) the Mind Excessively Wandering Scale (MEWS; Mowlem et al, 2019), a unidimensional structure that detects MW in ADHD, based on patient descriptions of MW in ADHD; (b) the Mind Wandering Questionnaire (MWQ; Mrazek et al, 2013), a five-item scale (single construct) based on the interruption of task-focus by task-unrelated thought, which has been validated across college, high school, and middle school students, and adapted for other languages, including Spanish (Salavera et al, 2017; Trigueros et al, 2019), Chinese (Luo et al, 2016), and Croatian (Kovačević et al, 2020); and (c) the Short Imaginal Processes Inventory (SIPI; Huba et al, 1982), a short (45-item) version of the Imaginal Processes Inventory (IPI; Singer & Antrobus, 1966/1970), a long (344-item) questionnaire that surveys 28 different aspects of daydreaming such as daydreaming frequency, nightdreaming frequency, and so on. By contrast, the SIPI encompasses only three scales namely Positive-Constructive Daydreaming, Guilt and Fear-of-Failure Daydreaming, and Poor Attentional Control.…”

Cross-cultural adaptation of the Mind-Wandering Questionnaire (MWQ) for Brazilian Portuguese and evidence of its validity

“…The MWQ has been adapted and validated in other languages, including Spanish, 24 Chinese, 25 Croatian, 26 Polish, 27 and Japanese. 28 It is one of the main instruments for assessing MW worldwide.…”