Task Enjoyment Scale

What it measures

Seven items (or a four-item short form) measure the degree to which a person found a particular task enjoyable, interesting, and engaging. Items cover affective experience during the task, perceived interest, and retrospective pleasure. Two items (3 and 4) are reverse-scored and assess boredom and lack of attentional engagement. A blank in each item should be filled with a word or phrase identifying the specific task being evaluated.

Representative items

• Study 1: n = 80 undergraduates (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
• Study 3: n = 257 undergraduates (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Citation

Chen, F., & Sengupta, J. (2014). Forced to be bad: The positive impact of low-autonomy vice consumption on consumer vitality. Journal of Consumer Research, 41(4), 1089-1107.