Focus of Attention Test
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Gardner et al.
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“91 LECTURE 11 Developing Focused Attention T here might not be a more important psychological skill for performers than focused attention. In some sports, a loss of focus can be devastating to performance, risking injury or contributing to the loss of skills. Problems arise when…”
— Great Course Psychology of Performancematch 60%
“The difference is most plainly felt when the attention oscillates rapidly between eye and ear; and the feeling localizes itself with most decided difference in regard to the various sense-organs, according as we wish to discriminate a thing delicately by touch, taste, or smell.…”
— The Principles of Psychologymatch 53%
“The Psychology of Performance: How to Be Your Best in Life 93 something in the playing field. When athletes are performing their best, they tend to stay external and flow across the broad-to-narrow continuum as needed. Problems arise when they get distracted by internal…”
— Great Course Psychology of Performancematch 53%
Resources: Great Course Psychology of Performance · The Principles of Psychology