Literature Review The consequences of media multitasking for youth: A review

Multitasking of youth media is becoming common and people are concerned about adverse effects on youth's business. The number of empirical studies on the effects of multitasking on media on young people is rapidly increasing, but no attempt has been made to combine theories with the results of these studies. This review combines the available results of relationships between media multitasking and adolescent functions: cognitive control, academic performance, and social emotional function. We searched the three databases (PsycINFO, ERIC, and CMMC) to determine the relevant studies and found 8448 references. 65 studies met the selection criteria: nine studies on cognitive control, 43 studies on academic performance, and 4 studies on social emotional function. Overall, the results of this study show that there is a small to moderate negative relationship between media multitasking and youth operations in three areas. However, evidence of a causal relationship with this relationship is lacking. Based on the included studies, we identified several research gaps and proposed five major directions for future research: consideration of causality, establishment of a more targeted theory, Representative sample

Despite the recent surge in media multitasking research, it is still impossible to conduct a comprehensive meta-analysis of its impact. Based on a review of 49 media multitask studies, this meta-analysis showed that multitasking has a negative effect on cognitive results and has a positive effect on attitude (or persuasion) results. Moderator analysis showed that the negative impact of multitasking on cognitive results varies based on (a) user control, (b) task relevance, and (c) task continuity. In particular, multitasking has a greater impact if (a) media users can not control the media, (b) unrelated tasks, and (c) physically distant tasks. Further discussion of the impact on future multitasking research

Multitasking of youth media is becoming common and people are concerned about adverse effects on youth's business. The number of empirical studies on the effects of multitasking on media on young people is rapidly increasing, but no attempt has been made to combine theories with the results of these studies. This review combines the available results of relationships between media multitasking and adolescent functions: cognitive control, academic performance, and social emotional function. We searched the three databases (PsycINFO, ERIC, and CMMC) to determine the relevant studies and found 8448 references. 65 studies met the selection criteria: nine studies on cognitive control, 43 studies on academic performance, and 4 studies on social emotional function. Overall, the results of this study show that there is a small to moderate negative relationship between media multitasking and youth operations in three areas.