Young and restless: Validation of the Mind-Wandering Questionnaire (MWQ) reveals disruptive impact of mind-wandering for youth

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Mrazek, Michael D ^a   Phillips, Dawa T ^a   Franklin, Michael S ^a   Broadway, James M ^a   Schooler, Jonathan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; K 12 education; Mind wandering; Reading comprehension; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885343233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00560     Document Type: Article

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