The Multitasking Preference Inventory: Toward an Improved Measure of Individual Differences in Polychronicity

By Elizabeth M. Poposki, F. Oswald. 2010

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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A Conceptual Typology of Multitasking Behavior and Polychronicity Preferences (2012, methodology): “…Multitasking Preference Inventory (MPI), which is focused exclusively on personal affinities for various descriptions of mono- or multitasking contexts (Poposki and Oswald, 2010). structures that require fast execution of tasks and prompt response to customers’ requests (Arndt et al., 2006).”
The Media and Technology Usage and Attitudes Scale: An empirical investigation (2013, methodology): “Items were selected from the original 14-question inventory (α = .88) by using those with the top four loadings in a factor analysis (Poposki & Oswald, 2010).”
Facebook and texting made me do it: Media-induced task-switching while studying (2013, background): “Rosen et al. (2011) found that while nearly three fourths of participants in a study where student learning was interrupted by text messages, 40% felt it was acceptable to text in class.”
Is Facebook creating "iDisorders"? The link between clinical symptoms of psychiatric disorders and technology use, attitudes and anxiety (2013, methodology): “Items were selected from the original 14-question inventory by using those with the top four loadings in a factor analysis where the entire scale had a Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefﬁcient of .88 (Poposki & Oswald, 2010).”
Polychronicity and Multitasking: A Diary Study at Work (2015, methodology): “Because previous research had shown relations between personality characteristics such as Conscientiousness and Extraversion and polychronicity and related performance (Conte & Gintoft, 2005; Poposki & Oswald, 2010), we included these constructs as control variables.”