Hi Michaël,

thanks for answering. I´m not targeted on any specific phenomenon or single component. My goal is to capture every preceding quality of self-reflection in a hypo-egoic mindset as stated by Leary & Terry (2012) or Leary & Diebels (2017), which are more present-focus, more concrete representations, less introspection, less evaluation and concerns about evaluation of others.

Now, I´m aware of the obstacles of self-reports and especially asking people to introspect about how much lesser they introspected could prove very difficult. But maybe someone already found a way to alleviate that difficulty in this particular case. Otherwise I may find a solution with your help. Thanks!

Adrian

Thank you very much for your help, Michaël!

This sounds quite promising.

Your suggestions helped a lot with knowledge acquisition in general and theory crafting, thanks again!

I chose to measure the mentioned constructs directly by generating items by myself and forming a scale, but, as this was my bachelor thesis, i needed to keep it very parsimonious, because experimental induction and other measures already took up much time and space. Therefore, I also had no chance to pilot test and validate my scale. It could be that it´s just measuring mindfulness - currently I´m analysing and arguing based on the theoretical foundation of my item construction and the results.

Overall, I expected way more but the results are not at all completely disappointing. A major problem that emerges is that my sample consists mostly of psychology students (who would have thought it), which is evidently limiting variance of my dependent variable(s). I will, however, continue researching with the same or slightly altered experimental framework and design within the scope of my work at the chair and keep you up to date. Probably, I create a project here after my current obligations are overcome.

Greetings and stay healthy!