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Media use, face-to-face communication, media multitasking, and social well-being among 8-to 12-year-old girls
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An online survey of 3,461 North American girls ages 8-12 conducted in the summer of 2010 through Discovery Girls magazine examined the relationships between social well-being and young girls' media use--including video, video games, music listening, reading/homework, e-mailing/posting on social media sites, texting/instant messaging, and talking on phones/video chatting--and face-to-face communication. This study introduced both a more granular measure of media multitasking and a new comparative measure of media use versus time spent in face-to-face communication. Regression analyses indicated that negative social well-being was positively associated with levels of uses of media that are centrally about interpersonal interaction (e.g., phone, online communication) as well as uses of media that are not (e.g., video, music, and reading). Video use was particularly strongly associated with negative social well-being indicators. Media multitasking was also associated with negative social indicators. Conversely, face-to-face communication was strongly associated with positive social well-being. Cell phone ownership and having a television or computer in one's room had little direct association with children's socioemotional well-being. We hypothesize possible causes for these relationships, call for research designs to address causality, and outline possible implications of such findings for the social well-being of younger adolescents.
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“Other studies have even found that media multitasking poses a potential threat to the mental health of the public (10, 11).”
From Media multitasking, depression, and anxiety of college students: Serial mediating effects of attention control and negative information attentional bias (2022) · cites this paper as [11]
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“and fewer feelings of normalcy (Pea et al., 2012).”
From The consequences of media multitasking for youth: A review (2015) · cites this paper as Pea et al., 2012
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“By contrast, both studies on social functioning found no relationship between media multitasking and social functioning (Pea et al., 2012;Shih, 2013).”
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“Moreover, the two studies on sleep showed that more media multitasking was related to less sleep, r = À.09 (Calamaro et al., 2009;Pea et al., 2012),”
From The consequences of media multitasking for youth: A review (2015) · cites this paper as Pea et al., 2012
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“the other two studies showed that media multitasking was related to problematic emotional functioning, r range = .05to .19.”
From The consequences of media multitasking for youth: A review (2015) · cites this paper as Pea et al., 2012
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“frequency of face-to-face communication, on the other hand, was associated with higher levels of social success.”
From Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 1—A Theoretical Framework and Application to Dyadic Peer Relationships (2018) · cites this paper as Pea et al. 2012
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“Furthermore, in a cross-sectional study of preadolescent girls, those who engaged in higher levels of media multitasking showed lower levels of social success, including having fewer friends and feeling less accepted (Pea et al. 2012)”
From Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 1—A Theoretical Framework and Application to Dyadic Peer Relationships (2018) · cites this paper as Pea et al. 2012
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pea, R., Nass, C., Meheula, L., Rance, M., Kumar, A., Bamford, H., Nass, M., Simha, A., Stillerman, B., Yang, S., & Zhou, M.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Venue
- Developmental Psychology
- Published
- 2012
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 327-336
- ISSN
- 0012-1649 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-0599
- OpenAlex
- W2118360093
- Cited by
- 375
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 136.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Developmental Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (NSF-0835854, NSF-0841556)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Communication › Media and Digital Communication
- Keywords
- media use, face-to-face communication, media multitasking, social well-being, social and emotional wellbeing, young girls, children, video use, video games, instant messaging, mobile phone ownership, social media, homework, reading, interpersonal communication
- MeSH terms
- Child, Child Behavior, Communication, Emotions, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Predictive Value of Tests, Regression Analysis, Sex Factors, Sleep, Video Recording, Electronic Mail, Social Media
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