2022
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/y9fuv
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Habitual Social Media and Smartphone Use are Linked to Task Delay for Some, but not all, Adolescents

Abstract: There is popular concern that adolescents’ social media use, especially via smartphones, leads to irrational delay of intended tasks (i.e., procrastination). Automatic social media use and frequent phone checking may especially contribute to procrastination. Prior research has investigated this through between-person associations. We advance the literature by additionally examining within-person and person-specific associations of automatic social media use and mobile phone checking frequency with each other a… Show more

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“…Some users were more readily distracted by video streaming (e.g., YouTube), others more so by browsing the Internet, and others turned attention to online games when procrastinating 82 . Using a similar methodology, another study 83 also found no overall associations between how often adolescents check their phone and procrastination. Instead, the degree of task delay across individuals was related to how “automatically” (i.e., habitually) the participants used social media, rather than the frequency.…”
Section: Pointless Distraction Vs Positive Stimulationmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…Some users were more readily distracted by video streaming (e.g., YouTube), others more so by browsing the Internet, and others turned attention to online games when procrastinating 82 . Using a similar methodology, another study 83 also found no overall associations between how often adolescents check their phone and procrastination. Instead, the degree of task delay across individuals was related to how “automatically” (i.e., habitually) the participants used social media, rather than the frequency.…”
Section: Pointless Distraction Vs Positive Stimulationmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…Since most adolescents spend hours and hours on their smartphone and check their smartphone frequently (Beierle et al, 2020; Meier et al, 2023), it is important to understand how exactly smartphone use is associated with both distraction and task delay, which are considered two prototypical types of self-regulation failure (Baumeister & Heatherton, 2009; Diehl et al, 2006; Steel, 2007). Overall, the literature shows that distraction and task delay increase when smartphone use increases (e.g., Aalbers et al, 2022; Schnauber-Stockmann et al, 2018; Stothart et al, 2015).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Overall, the literature shows that distraction and task delay increase when smartphone use increases (e.g., Aalbers et al, 2022; Schnauber-Stockmann et al, 2018; Stothart et al, 2015). For example, Dwyer et al (2018) showed that increased smartphone use made participants feel more distracted during social interactions, and Meier et al (2023) found that adolescents experienced more task delay when they checked their smartphones more frequently.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%