Drody Allison C, Ralph Brandon C W, Danckert James, Smilek Daniel
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Front Psychol. 2022 Mar 21;13:807667. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.807667. eCollection 2022.
Media multitasking entails simultaneously engaging in multiple tasks when at least one of the tasks involves media (e.g., online activities and streaming videos). Across two studies, we investigated one potential trigger of media multitasking, state boredom, and its relation to media multitasking. To this end, we manipulated participants' levels of state boredom using video mood inductions prior to administering an attention-demanding 2-back task during which participants could media multitask by playing a task-irrelevant video. We also examined whether trait boredom proneness was associated media multitasking. We found no direct evidence that state boredom leads to media multitasking. However, trait boredom proneness correlated with greater amounts of media multitasking in Experiment 1, but not in Experiment 2. Surprisingly, in both experiments, post-task ratings of state boredom were equivalent across conditions, alerting us to the short-lived effects of video mood inductions and the boring nature of cognitive tasks.
媒体多任务处理是指当至少一项任务涉及媒体时（例如，在线活动和流媒体视频）同时参与多项任务。在两项研究中，我们调查了媒体多任务处理的一个潜在触发因素——状态无聊，以及它与媒体多任务处理的关系。为此，我们在进行一项需要注意力的2-back任务之前，通过视频情绪诱导来操纵参与者的状态无聊水平，在此任务期间参与者可以通过播放与任务无关的视频进行媒体多任务处理。我们还研究了特质无聊倾向是否与媒体多任务处理有关。我们没有发现直接证据表明状态无聊会导致媒体多任务处理。然而，在实验1中，特质无聊倾向与更多的媒体多任务处理相关，但在实验2中并非如此。令人惊讶的是，在两个实验中，任务后状态无聊的评分在各条件下都是相同的，这提醒我们视频情绪诱导的效果是短暂的，以及认知任务的无聊性质。
