Measuring media multitasking: Development of a short measure of media multitasking for adolescents

Journal of Media Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 188-197

  Baumgartner, Susanne E ^a   Lemmens, Jeroen S ^a   Weeda, Wouter D ^b   Huizinga, Mariette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Media multitasking; Short measure

Indexed keywords

EID: 85034081284     PISSN: 18641105     EISSN: 21512388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-1105/a000167     Document Type: Article

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