Media multitasking and failures of attention in everyday life
Media multitasking and failures of attention in everyday life
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DOI：
10.1007/s00426-013-0523-7
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发表时间：
2014-09-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Smilek, Daniel
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作者：
Ralph, Brandon C. W.;Thomson, David R.;Smilek, Daniel
使用一系列在线自我报告测量，我们研究了媒体多任务处理，一种特别普遍的多任务处理形式，以及它与日常注意力的三个方面的关系：（1）注意力失败和认知错误（2）走神，（3）注意力控制，重点是注意力转换和注意力分散。我们观察到媒体多任务处理水平与自我报告的注意力失败之间存在正相关关系，以及与自发和故意走神的报告之间存在正相关关系。媒体多任务处理和自我报告的记忆失败之间没有相关性，这证明了媒体多任务处理可能与注意力不集中问题有关的假设，而不是一般的认知错误。此外，媒体多任务处理与自我报告的注意力转移困难或分心无关。我们提供了一个合理的因果结构模型，评估媒体多任务处理，注意力缺失，走神和认知错误之间的直接和间接影响，具有启发性的目标，约束和激励理论的媒体多任务处理对注意力不集中的影响。
Using a series of online self-report measures, we examine media multitasking, a particularly pervasive form of multitasking, and its relations to three aspects of everyday attention: (1) failures of attention and cognitive errors (2) mind wandering, and (3) attentional control with an emphasis on attentional switching and distractibility. We observed a positive correlation between levels of media multitasking and self-reports of attentional failures, as well as with reports of both spontaneous and deliberate mind wandering. No correlation was observed between media multitasking and self-reported memory failures, lending credence to the hypothesis that media multitasking may be specifically related to problems of inattention, rather than cognitive errors in general. Furthermore, media multitasking was not related with self-reports of difficulties in attention switching or distractibility. We offer a plausible causal structural model assessing both direct and indirect effects among media multitasking, attentional failures, mind wandering, and cognitive errors, with the heuristic goal of constraining and motivating theories of the effects of media multitasking on inattention.