Immersive Tendencies Questionnaire

Immersive Tendencies Questionnaire

Please Answer the Following Questions.

1. Do you ever get extremely involved in projects that are assigned to you by your boss or your instructor, to the exclusion of other tasks?

Never Often

2. How easily can you switch your attention from the task in which you are currently involved to a new task?

Not so easily Quite easily

3. How frequently do you get emotionally involved (angry, sad, or happy) in the news stories that you read or hear?

Never Often

4. How well do you feel today?

Not well Excellent

5. Do you easily become deeply involved in movies or TV dramas?

Never Often

6. Do you ever become so involved in a television program or book that people have problems getting your attention?

Never Often

7. How mentally alert do you feel at the present time?

Not alert Fully alert

8. Do you ever become so involved in a movie that you are not aware of things happening around you?

Never Often

9. How frequently do you find yourself closely identifying with the characters in a story line?

Never Often

10. Do you ever become so involved in a video game that it is as if you are inside the game rather than moving a joystick and watching the screen?

Never Often

11. On average, how many books do you read for enjoyment in a month?

12. What kind of books do you read most frequently? (SELECT ONE ITEM ONLY!)

13. How physically fit do you feel today?

Not fit Extremely fit

14. How good are you at blocking out external distractions when you are involved in something?

Not very good Very good

15. When watching sports, do you ever become so involved in the game that you react as if you were one of the players?

Never Often

16. Do you ever become so involved in a daydream that you are not aware of things happening around you?

Never Often

17. Do you ever have dreams that are so real that you feel disoriented when you awake?

Never Often

18. When playing sports, do you become so involved in the game that you lose track of time?

Never Often

19. Are you easily disturbed when working on a task? 

Never Often

20. How well do you concentrate on enjoyable activities?

Not at all Very well

21. How often do you play arcade or video games? (OFTEN should be taken to mean every day or every two days, on average.

Never Often

22. How well do you concentrate on disagreeable tasks?

Not at all Very well

23. Have you ever gotten excited during a chase or fight scene on TV or in the movies?

Never Often

24. To what extent have you dwelled on personal problems in the last 48 hours?

Not at all Entirely

25. Have you ever gotten scared by something happening on a TV show or in a movie?

Never Often

26. Have you ever remained apprehensive or fearful long after watching a scary movie?

Never Often

27. Do you ever avoid carnival or fairground rides because they are too scary?

Never Often

28. How frequently do you watch TV soap operas or docu-dramas?

Never Often

29. Do you ever become so involved in doing something that you lose all track of time?

Never Often