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Table 2 Descriptive statistics and reliability estimates for the cognitive ability measures

From: Attentional disengagements in educational contexts: a diary investigation of everyday mind-wandering and distraction

Measure

M

SDS

Skew

Kurtosis

Reliability

Ospan

58.19

11.33

−1.01

.73

.76

Symspan

30.08

6.28

−.48

−.03

.65

Rspan

56.40

11.62

−.88

.73

.77

Raven

8.55

2.93

−.20

−.03

.67

LS

10.34

2.95

−.10

−.30

.68

Anti

.49

.13

.69

.07

.95

SARTacc

.56

.15

.13

−.38

.85

SARTSD

146.17

39.70

.56

1.29

.83

PVT

540.62

117.98

1.28

1.80

.78

AntiMW

.18

.24

1.68

2.59

—

SARTMW

.22

.19

1.09

1.04

—

PVTMW

.18

.18

1.16

1.06

—

AntiED

.11

.16

2.15

5.47

—

SARTED

.14

.12

.92

.48

—

PVTED

.13

.15

2.04

5.95

—

  1. Ospan = operation span; Rspan = reading span; Symspan = symmetry span; Raven = Raven Advanced Progressive Matrices; LS = letter sets; NS = Anti = antisaccade; SARTacc = accuracy on Sustained Attention to Response Task; SARTSD = standard deviation of response time on the Sustained Attention to Response task; PVT = psychomotor vigilance task; ED = external distraction; MW = mind-wandering
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