Research Paper On Social Media Multitasking
The article, “Media Use, Face-to- Face Communication, Media Multitasking, and Social Well-Being Among 8- 12 Year-Old Girls is a survey that was conducted within North America to examine the relationships between social media use between younger girls and how it affects their social well-being. The survey looks at various relationships between social media use, face-to face communication, using multiple social medias, and social well-being or in other words, how they feel about themselves and if they feel included among their peers (Pea, et al. 2012). The survey asks a variety of questions concerning social media use, how they feel about their friends, how they feel about themselves, how their parents see their friends, and if they get enough
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The article aims to answer five questions: 1) How do media use and multitasking relate to feelings of social success, an important indicator of social well-being and of how one is dealing with the developmental task of …show more content…
There are a great deal of variables within this study which are the amount of social media one uses (media multitasking, which was found through an equation they created by asking questions about specific social medias), how long one uses social media, their overall social success/well being, their parent’s feeling of their friends being a bad influence, online friends vs. in-person friends and their feelings towards them, their sleep schedule, and amount of usage for each certain social medias (i.e., computer, cell phone, video use, etc.). The survey consisted of five sections, which first asked about general questions about the girl’s friends and life. Secondly, the average daily use of social media and how they interacted with friends whether it is face to face or through social media. Thirdly, asked about their general social outlook. Then they were asked to compare their online friends with their in-person friends through a various amount of scenarios. Lastly, they were asked about their sleep schedule and cell phone usage (Pea, et al. 2012). Throughout the majority of the sections, the girls were asked to rate the questions on a scale of 0 to 5, with 0 being
The article aims to answer five questions: 1) How do media use and multitasking relate to feelings of social success, an important indicator of social well-being and of how one is dealing with the developmental task of …show more content…
There are a great deal of variables within this study which are the amount of social media one uses (media multitasking, which was found through an equation they created by asking questions about specific social medias), how long one uses social media, their overall social success/well being, their parent’s feeling of their friends being a bad influence, online friends vs. in-person friends and their feelings towards them, their sleep schedule, and amount of usage for each certain social medias (i.e., computer, cell phone, video use, etc.). The survey consisted of five sections, which first asked about general questions about the girl’s friends and life. Secondly, the average daily use of social media and how they interacted with friends whether it is face to face or through social media. Thirdly, asked about their general social outlook. Then they were asked to compare their online friends with their in-person friends through a various amount of scenarios. Lastly, they were asked about their sleep schedule and cell phone usage (Pea, et al. 2012). Throughout the majority of the sections, the girls were asked to rate the questions on a scale of 0 to 5, with 0 being