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Increasing attention to daydreaming by self‐monitoring
Author(s) -
Teague Ruth G.,
Gold Steven R.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198107)37:3<538::aid-jclp2270370316>3.0.co;2-2
Subject(s) - psychology , significant difference , control (management) , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , statistics , computer science , mathematics , artificial intelligence
Attempted to determine whether daydreaming is reactive to self‐monitoring, whether one method of self‐monitoring was superior to another, and whether there was any relationship between initial attitude toward daydreaming and change in daydreaming frequency over time. Twenty‐nine male and 30 female infrequent daydreamers participated. One experimental group tallied their daydreams for 3 weeks; the second tallied and logged the content of their daydreams, and the third group was a control. An orthogonal planned comparison showed that there was a significant difference between the control group and the average of the treatment groups, but neither method of self‐monitoring was superior to the other.