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Who Multitasks on Smartphones? Smartphone Multitaskers' Motivations and Personality Traits
- Title
- Who Multitasks on Smartphones? Smartphone Multitaskers' Motivations and Personality Traits
- Authors
- Lim S.; Shim H.
- Ewha Authors
- 임소혜
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 임소혜
- Issue Date
- 2016
- Journal Title
- Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
- ISSN
- 2152-2715
- Citation
- Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 223 - 227
- Publisher
- Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
- Indexed
- SSCI; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- This study aimed to explore the psychological determinants of smartphone multitasking. Smartphone multitasking comprises the following three different subtypes: multitasking with nonmedia activities, cross-media multitasking with nonsmartphone media, and single-device multitasking within the smartphone. The primary motivations for smartphone multitasking were first identified - efficiency, utility, and positive affect - and the ways in which they are associated with the three subtypes were examined; among the primary motivations, efficiency and positive affect predicted the degree of total smartphone-multitasking behavior. The personality traits that are pertinent to all of the primary motivations - need for cognition (NFC) and sensation seeking (SS) - were also investigated. Further analyses revealed that the motivations for and the extent of smartphone multitasking can vary as functions of a user's NFC and SS. In this study, NFC was not only a meaningful predictor of the cognitive needs that drive smartphone multitasking but also increased the likelihood of multitasking through its interaction with SS. © Copyright 2016, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
- DOI
- 10.1089/cyber.2015.0225
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