@article{ref1,
title="Incompatibility and Mental Fatigue",
journal="Environment and behavior",
year="2011",
author="Herzog, Thomas R. and Hayes, Lauren J. and Applin, Rebecca C. and Weatherly, Anna M.",
volume="43",
number="6",
pages="827-847",
abstract="A straightforward prediction from attention restoration theory is that the level of incompatibility in a person's life should be positively correlated with that person's level of mental (or directed attention) fatigue. The authors tested this prediction by developing a new self-report measure of incompatibility in which they attempted to isolate all the six categories of incompatibility described by S. Kaplan: distraction, deficit of information, duty, deception, difficulty, and danger. Factor analysis revealed six factors that corresponded reasonably well to those six categories. This article found that a composite incompatibility score was positively correlated with a separate self-report measure of mental fatigue and so were all six of the subscale scores. With the exception of the score for duty, these positive correlations remained after partialing out a separate measure of the level of stress in the person's life. The authors concluded that the proposed categories of incompatibility can be validly measured; that the constructs of incompatibility, mental fatigue, and stress are discriminable from each other; and that incompatibility is generally positively correlated with mental fatigue.<p />",
language="",
issn="0013-9165",
doi="10.1177/0013916510383242",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013916510383242"
}