Longitudinal Stability of Three Second-Order Daydreaming Factors

Abstract

In this article, the longitudinal stability of the three second-order daydreaming factors of the Short Imaginal Processes Inventory (SIPI) was examined. The SIPI was administered twice to a sample of 112 college students. The interval between testings was approximately one month. Over this period, a statistically significant multivariate test of level differences was obtained with univariate tests revealing shifts in the means for the Positive-Constructive Daydreaming factor and for the Guilt-Fear of Failure Daydreaming Factor. Latent variable models were then used to test the stability of the SIPI domains over this period. These models demonstrated that the SIPI domains had moderately high test-retest stabilities at the level of the latent variables.

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