MEDIA MULTITASKING AMONG AMERICAN YOUTH: PREVALENCE, PREDICTORS AND PAIRINGS

By U. Foehr. 2006

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Smartphone use undermines enjoyment of face-to-face social interactions (2017, background): “This generation has grown up with mobile technology, and some have raised the possibility that young people might therefore be relatively adept at multi-tasking in real world contexts (Foehr, 2006).”
Digital Inequality (2008, background): “Research among young people has shown gender may also play a role in media multitasking, with girls multitasking more than boys (Foehr, 2006).”
Technology and Informal Education: What Is Taught, What Is Learned (2009, background): “This is an important question, given the all-pervasiveness of multitasking in today’s technological environment, especially for youth (38, 39).”
Age Differences in Media Multitasking: A Diary Study (2013, background): “The computer also promoted multitasking because of the natural breaks and interruptions, e.g., downloading times and pop ups, which stimulated people to do several things at the same time (Foehr, 2006).”
The Relationship Between Media Multitasking and Executive Function in Early Adolescents (2014, background): “With universal accessibility to media technologies, youth increasingly squeeze more media content into the same amount of time (Carrier, Cheever, Rosen, Benitez, & Chang, 2009; Foehr, 2006; Rideout, Foehr, & Roberts, 2010).”
Reading Into the Future: Competence for the 21st Century (2012, background): “(2010) and others (Foehr, 2006; Lenhart, Madden, & Hitlin, 2005) testify to a pattern of media multitasking among school-aged learners.”
Effects of video-game play on information processing: A meta-analytic investigation (2013, background): “However, a variety of digital activities (e.g., Internet surfing, social networking, and texting) are outside the scope of our research, despite proposals that such activities may alter cognition by encouraging multi-tasking and divided attention (Foehr, 2006; Greenfield, 2009; Rosen, 2010).”
The Relationship Between Media Multitasking and Attention Problems in Adolescents: Results of Two Longitudinal Studies (2017, background): “Apart from developmental di ﬀ erences, several studies have shown that media multitasking, particularly media multitasking with social media, is more prevalent among females than among males (Baumgartner, Lemmens, Weeda, & Huizinga, 2016; Foehr, 2006; Rideout et al., 2010).”
To excel or not to excel: Strong evidence on the adverse effect of smartphone addiction on academic performance (2016, background): “The adverse effect of smartphone multitasking on academic performance may be explained by the cognitive overload concept (Mayer & Moreno, 2003) whereby nonacademic multitasking in learning contexts aggravates the problem (Foehr, 2006) but does not reduce the cognitive load (Mayer & Moreno, 2003).”
Does multitasking with mobile phones affect learning? A review (2016, background): “Similar to Sanbonmatsu et al. (2013), Foehr (2006) believed that “sensation seekers” seek adventures and exciting experiences by media multitasking (Foehr, 2006).”
Surveying Parental Mediation: Connections, Challenges and Questions for Media Literacy (2009, background): “Children are increasingly likely to have a television and computer in their bedrooms (Bovill and Livingstone 2001; Livingstone 2002), multitask with media (Foehr 2006), and use the Internet to communicate with others (Roberts et al. 1999).”
Multitasking across generations: Multitasking choices and difficulty ratings in three generations of Americans (2009, methodology): “However, the finding that the youngest generation is engaging in significant amounts of multitasking is consistent with measures of the quantity of multitasking in youths obtained in earlier studies (Foehr, 2006; Jeong & Fishbein, 2007; Jordan et al., 2005).”