This scale measures how much a person's attention wandered and how much they wished they were doing something more exciting during a particular activity. Lieberman, Morales, and Amir (2022) used it to study how tangential immersion helps people persist through boring consumer tasks.
7-point scale (not at all (1) to a lot (7))
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The scale was reliable across pretests for three experiments (α = .85, .83, .90; Lieberman, Morales, and Amir 2022, pp. 456, 457, 462) among University of California San Diego students. Validity was not separately discussed. The authors note it could be adapted to measure boredom with other stimuli, such as a movie, commercial, or concert.
Lieberman, Alicea, Andrea C. Morales, and On Amir (2022), "Tangential Immersion: Increasing Persistence in Boring Consumer Behaviors," Journal of Consumer Research, 49 (3), 450-472.
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