Not all media multitasking is the same: The frequency of media multitasking depends on cognitive and affective characteristics of media combinations.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne E. Baumgartner ◽  
Wisnu Wiradhany
Keyword(s):  
Media Multitasking ◽  
Affective Characteristics

Cognitive-Affective Characteristics of Smokers With and Without PTSD and Panic Psychopathology

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anka Vujanovic ◽  
Erin Marshall ◽  
Amanda Kutz ◽  
Sarah Nelson ◽  
Michael Zvolensky
Keyword(s):  
Affective Characteristics

Permanently Online—Always Stressed Out? The Effects of Permanent Connectedness on Stress Experiences

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Freytag ◽  
Katharina Knop-Huelss ◽  
Adrian Meier ◽  
Leonard Reinecke ◽  
Dorothée Hefner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Media Multitasking ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Cognitive Orientation ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
Cognitive Salience

Abstract Concerns have been expressed that permanent online connectedness might negatively affect media user’s stress levels. Most research has focused on negative effects of specific media usage patterns, such as media multitasking or communication load. In contrast, users’ cognitive orientation toward online content and communication has rarely been investigated. Against this backdrop, we examined whether this cognitive orientation (i.e., online vigilance with its three dimensions salience, reactibility, monitoring) is related to perceived stress at different timescales (person, day, and situation level), while accounting for the effects of multitasking and communication load. Results across three studies showed that, in addition to multitasking (but not communication load), especially the cognitive salience of online communication is positively related to stress. Our findings are discussed regarding mental health implications and the origins of stress.

scholarly journals Linking Phubbing Behavior to Self-Reported Attentional Failures and Media Multitasking

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Kayla S. Sansevere ◽  
Nathan Ward
Keyword(s):  
Technology Use ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Media Multitasking ◽  
Cognitive Errors ◽  
Personality Variables ◽  
Cognitive Framework ◽  
Self Report Data ◽  
Attentional Lapses ◽  
Use Behavior

Phubbing, or using a phone to snub another person, has been investigated through social and personality frameworks. Phubbing involves attending to and performing competing tasks, implying the involvement of attentional abilities. Yet, past research has not yet used a cognitive framework to establish a link between phubbing and attention. Using self-report data from a large online sample, we explored the associations between phubbing and everyday attentional failures. Phubbing was associated with difficulties in attentional shifting and distractibility, frequent attentional lapses, spontaneous and deliberate mind wandering, and attention-related cognitive errors. When examining these attention variables alongside several psychosocial and personality variables, attention-related cognitive errors acted as the biggest predictor of phubbing behavior. Phubbing was also positively correlated with media multitasking, which is a conceptually similar yet distinct technology use behavior. The results suggest that perceived everyday attentional failures are strongly associated with, and to an extent can predict, phubbing behavior, even more so than some social and personality variables. Technology has incorporated itself as a necessity, or at the very least a favored convenience, in most people’s lives. Characterizing technology multitasking behaviors from a variety of frameworks can help us better understand who is engaging in these behaviors and why.

scholarly journals Technology consumption and cognitive control: Contrasting action video game experience with media multitasking

2015 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 218-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Cardoso-Leite ◽  
Rachel Kludt ◽  
Gianluca Vignola ◽  
Wei Ji Ma ◽  
C. Shawn Green ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Media Multitasking ◽  
Action Video Game
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