The scale measures which of two candidate tasks a person believes would be more disruptive to their current mood and require more mental energy to begin. Woolley and Sharif (2022) used it in two studies; its source was not identified.
9-point comparative scale (task A (1), both (5), task B (9))
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Reliability was α = .90 in Study 3 (n = 1,016, MTurk) and α = .80 in Study 4b (n = 811, Prolific) (Woolley and Sharif 2022, pp. 459, 461). Validity was not separately discussed. Respondents choose between two named tasks (e.g., a music video versus a word search) using a bipolar comparative response format.
Woolley, Kaitlin and Marissa A. Sharif (2022), "Down a Rabbit Hole: How Prior Media Consumption Shapes Subsequent Media Consumption," Journal of Marketing Research, 59 (3), 453–471.
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