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The Amsterdam Resting-State Questionnaire (ARSQ)

MD Marina Diachenko
KS Kristina K. Smith
LF Lone Fjorback
NH Niels Viggo Hansen
KL Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen
KP Karen Johanne Pallesen
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The ARSQ is a self-report measure of the content and quality of thoughts and feelings experienced during a resting state (Diaz et al., 2013). The ARSQ identifies 10 dimensions: Discontinuity of Mind, Theory of Mind, Self, Planning, Sleepiness, Comfort, Somatic Awareness, Health Concern, Visual Thought, and Verbal Thought. In the present study, we extended the 10-dimensional model of the ARSQ 2.0 (Diaz et al., 2014) with an experimental dimension labelled Negative Thought (Figure 3). The score on each of the 11 dimensions was calculated as the mean score of three items that were rated on a five-point ordinal scale (1 to 5) corresponding to the labels “Completely Disagree,” “Disagree,” “Neither Agree nor Disagree,” “Agree,” and “Completely Agree.”

An extended Amsterdam Resting-State Questionnaire capturing eleven dimensions of thoughts and feelings. The ARSQ 2.0 model of mind-wandering contains 10 factors defined by the items listed above the dashed line (Diaz et al., 2014). For the present study, we added the dimension labelled “Negative Thought”.

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