A three-item scale measuring the degree to which a person's mind wandered away from a focal task — thinking about past or future events, counterfactual activities, or allowing thoughts to drift to unrelated content. Developed by Rahinel and Ahluwalia (2015) and confirmed as original to the authors (Rahinel 2016), the scale was used as a manipulation check in the pretest for Study 4 (n = 65) to verify that a mind-wandering induction produced greater task-decoupled thinking than an experiencing-mode induction. A blank in each item allows the task name to be inserted. Items are rated on a 5-point scale from 'not at all' (1) to 'a lot' (5). Alpha = .79 is adequate. The scale operationalises mind wandering as a situational state tied to a specific task rather than as a dispositional trait.
Rahinel, R., & Ahluwalia, R. (2015). Attention modes and price importance: How experiencing and mind-wandering influence the prioritization of changeable stimuli. Journal of Consumer Research, 42(2), 214–234.
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