China Safety Science Journal ›› 2019, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (9): 13-19.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2019.09.003

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Development of questionnaire on miners' mind wandering

LI Naiwen, XU Chang   

  1. School of Business Management, Liaoning Technical University, Huludao Liaoning 125105,China
  • Received:2019-06-11 Revised:2019-08-15 Online:2019-09-28 Published:2020-10-30

Abstract: In order to develop a questionnaire on miners' characteristic mind wandering, based on the qualitative research on it, firstly, an initial questionnaire of 89 initial items concerning mind wandering inducement, content and result was prepared. Then, taking 551 miners as research objects, project analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were conducted for initial questionnaires, and a formal questionnaire of 54 items was developed from 9 dimensions, including physical and mental state, personal traits, spontaneous thinking, external factors, irrelevant assignment tasks, assignment task results, assignment task processes, negative mind wandering and positive mind wandering. The results show that the proposed questionnaire has high reliability and validity as it can measure miners‘ mind wandering effectively and provide scientific basis for safety managers of coal mining enterprises to manage and control miners' mind wandering effectively.

Key words: miner, mind wandering, questionnaire development, project analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, reliability, validity

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