The effects of fragmented and sticky smartphone use on distraction and task delay
Teun Siebers,
Ine Beyens,
Patti M. Valkenburg
Abstract:The smartphone has become an integral part of adolescents’ daily life. Despite the countless affordances of smartphones, concerns have been raised about their enormous potential to cause failures in self-regulation, such as distraction and task delay. The current study investigated whether two smartphone usage patterns, fragmented and sticky smartphone use, are associated with distraction and task delay. For three weeks, we logged the smartphone usage of 160 adolescents (733,359 observations) and assessed thei… Show more
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