Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-11-2019
Publication Title
Frontiers in Psychology
Volume
9
First page number:
1
Last page number:
7
Abstract
Descriptive experience sampling has suggested that there are five frequently occurring phenomena of inner experience: inner speaking, inner seeing, unsymbolized thinking, feelings, and sensory awareness. Descriptive experience sampling is a labor- and skill-intensive procedure, so it would be desirable to estimate the frequency of these phenomena by questionnaire. However, appropriate questionnaires either do not exist or have substantial limitations. We therefore created the Nevada Inner Experience Questionnaire (NIEQ), with five subscales estimating the frequency of each of the frequent phenomena, and examine here its psychometric adequacy. Exploratory factor analysis produced four of the expected factors (inner speaking, inner seeing, unsymbolized thinking, feelings) but did not produce a sensory awareness factor. Confirmatory factor analysis validated the five-factor model. The correlation between an existing self-talk questionnaire (Brinthaupt’s Self-Talk Scale) and the NIEQ inner speaking subscale provides one piece of concurrent validation.
Keywords
Inner experience; Questionnaire; Descriptive experience sampling; Inner speech; Inner seeing; Unsymbolized thinking; Feelings; Sensory awareness
Disciplines
Psychology
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824 Kb
Language
English
Creative Commons License
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Repository Citation
Heavey, C. L.,
Moynihan, S. A.,
Brouwers, V. P.,
Lapping-Carr, L.,
Krumm, A. E.,
Kelsey, J. M.,
Turner, D. K.,
Hurlburt, R. T.
(2019).
Measuring the Frequency of Inner-Experience Characteristics by Self-Report: The Nevada Inner Experience Questionnaire.
Frontiers in Psychology, 9
1-7.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02615