The means and SD of responses to the two questions are presented in
Table 2. When analysing the frequencies of the first open question (difficulty
when a change occurs in a familiar routine), 24% of the participants were
found to indicate that they “usually” or “always” experienced difficulties.
For the second question (being distracted by various stimuli and hence not
succeeding in finishing tasks on time), 21% of the participants indicated
that they “usually” or “always” experienced difficulties. Moreover, although
the qualitative data received from the two open questions requires further and
deeper analysis it showed that these issues were very meaningful for the participants
in relation to perceived organisation of time. For example, participants
described a situation in which something unexpected, such as a
phone call, occurs while they prepare themselves to go to work. This event
causes confusion and harms their familiar routine thus causing them to
invest more energy and time in their routine activities and sometimes also
making them late.
With regard to the second open question, “being disrupted”, participants
described, for example, that when they try to do their shopping in a small
supermarket with less people in it, they perform much better and with significantly
less time and energy investment in comparison to shopping in a
big mall.