When frequent media multitaskers perform worse and when they do not: The role of self-regulation ability and strategy manipulation

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Highlights:

• Frequent media multitasking is not always related to poor multitasking performance.

• The relationship depends on self-regulation ability and external factors.

• High media multitaskers, when low on self-regulation ability, task-switched more.

• They exhibited poorer multitasking performance when they could freely task-switch.

• The effect was non-significant when tasks were performed sequentially.

摘要

•Frequent media multitasking is not always related to poor multitasking performance.•The relationship depends on self-regulation ability and external factors.•High media multitaskers, when low on self-regulation ability, task-switched more.•They exhibited poorer multitasking performance when they could freely task-switch.•The effect was non-significant when tasks were performed sequentially.

论文关键词:Media multitasking,Self-regulation,Multitasking performance,Performance strategy

论文评审过程:Available online 3 February 2018, Version of Record 7 February 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.01.043