The consequences of media multitasking for youth: A review

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Efficient, helpful, or distracting? A literature review of media multitasking in relation to academic performance (2018, unknown): “Research is more consistent with the scattered attention hypothesis than the trained attention hypothesis (van der Schuur et al., 2015).”
Effects of social media usage and social media multitasking on the academic performance of university students (2017, background): “This finding agrees with the existence of ample evidence documenting the negative effect of mediamultitasking on a range of learning attitudes, behaviors, and outcomes (van der Schuur et al., 2015).”
The Relationship Between Media Multitasking and Attention Problems in Adolescents: Results of Two Longitudinal Studies (2017, background): “Age and biological gender as potential moderators Prior research (e.g., van der Schuur et al., 2015) has pointed out that ignoring individual differences is a crucial shortcoming in existing research on the effects of media multitasking.”
The Social Media Disorder Scale (2016, unknown): “Furthermore, while there are several validated instruments for measuring game addiction (e.g. Grif ﬁ ths, 2005, Lemmens, Valkenburg, & Peter, 2009; Lemmens, Valkenburg, & Gentile, 2015; Van Rooij, Schoenmakers, Van den Eijnden, Vermulst, & Van de Mheen, 2010), no validated instruments exist measurin”