Why do we multitask with media? Predictors of media multitasking among Internet users in the United States and Taiwan

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue , 2015, Pages 31-41

  Kononova, Anastasia ^a   Chiang, Yi Hsuan ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHIH HSIN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Media multitasking; Media ownership; Motivations to multitask with media; Polychronicity; Taiwan; United States

Indexed keywords

MOTIVATION; SURVEYS;

INTERNET USERS; MEDIA OWNERSHIP; MEDIATING ROLES; POLYCHRONICITY; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 84927125861     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.03.052     Document Type: Article

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