The association between excessive social media use and distraction: an eye movement tracking study
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Social media use has been implicated in inhibitory attentional control deficits.
“Social media use (SMU) has been associated with negative mental health outcomes and has been implicated in inhibitory attentional control deficits.”
From Investigating the links between objective social media use, attentional control, and psychological distress (2024) · cites this paper as Xie et al., 2021
The title in the indexed copy links excessive social media use with distraction, which supports a broad association with attentional difficulty. The available passages, including those labeled Abstract (page unavailable), do not report an inhibitory-control measure or finding, so they do not establish the more specific claim about inhibitory attentional control deficits. (LLM, conf=0.67)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredSome emerging evidence indicates a negative relationship between SMU and attentional control, whereby higher SMU is associated with lower levels of attentional control.
“While limited, some emerging evidence also indicates a potential negative relationship between SMU and attentional control, whereby higher SMU is associated with lower levels of attentional control (Arness and Ollis, 2022; Wu, 2015; Xie et al., 2021).”
From Investigating the links between objective social media use, attentional control, and psychological distress (2024) · cites this paper as Xie et al., 2021
Social media is a significant source of distraction, with a moderate positive correlation between excessive social media use and distraction (p < 0.001).
“A study also supported the notion that social media is a significant source of distraction, finding a moderate positive correlation between excessive social media use and distraction (p < 0.001) [26].”
From Impact of social media on cognitive development of children and young adults: a systematic review (2025) · cites this paper as [26]
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredData handling was mostly appropriate, though some studies lacked transparency in managing missing data or confounding variables.
“Data handling was mostly appropriate, though some studies lacked transparency in managing missing data or confounding variables, raising concerns about the validity of their results [10, 22–26].”
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- Authors
- Xie, J.-Q., Rost, D. H., Wang, F.-X., Wang, J.-L., & Monk, R. L.
- Affiliations
- Southwest University (CN)
- Edge Hill University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Wang, Jin-Liang
- Venue
- Information & Management
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-03
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 103415
- ISSN
- 0378-7206 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3112312228
- Cited by
- 56
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 6
- FWCI
- 6.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- Locations
- Information & Management (publishedVersion)
- Edge Hill University Research Information Repository (Edge Hill University) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (20JHQ090)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Personal Information Management and User Behavior
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Digital Media and Philosophy
- Keywords
- excessive social media use, distraction, microblogging, information engagement, interference suppression, Stroop task, eye tracking, university students
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