School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, People's Republic of China.
School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, People's Republic of China.
J Exp Child Psychol. 2024 Jun;242:105908. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105908. Epub 2024 Mar 18.
Influenced by the epidemic and the rapid popularization of smart devices, media multitasking has become increasingly common in people's lives and has attracted the attention of researchers, particularly among adolescents who are native to the digital era. However, previous studies have focused primarily on the relationship between multitasking and general cognitive functions, paying less attention to the connection between multitasking and metacognition, and there is a lack of research specifically addressing adolescents in this context. To address this gap, the current study conducted two experiments with upper primary and secondary school students to explore the relationship between multitasking and adolescents' metacognition under intrinsic and extrinsic cue conditions using metacognitive monitoring as an indicator. The results revealed that multitasking significantly reduced adolescents' metacognitive monitoring accuracy. However, the scores on the media multitasking questionnaire did not significantly correlate with metacognitive monitoring accuracy in the laboratory task. This finding suggested that multitasking, under both intrinsic and extrinsic cue conditions, impairs the accuracy of metacognitive monitoring for primary and secondary school students. However, daily media multitasking activities among these students were not significantly correlated with metacognitive monitoring accuracy.
受疫情影响以及智能设备的快速普及，媒体多任务处理在人们的生活中变得越来越普遍，引起了研究人员的关注，特别是在数字时代土生土长的青少年中。然而，以前的研究主要集中在多任务处理与一般认知功能之间的关系上，较少关注多任务处理与元认知之间的联系，并且在这种情况下缺乏专门针对青少年的研究。为了弥补这一空白，本研究通过使用元认知监测作为指标，对小学生和中学生进行了两项实验，以探究内在和外在线索条件下多任务处理与青少年元认知之间的关系。研究结果表明，多任务处理显著降低了青少年元认知监测的准确性。然而，媒体多任务处理问卷的分数与实验室任务中元认知监测的准确性没有显著相关性。这一发现表明，内在和外在线索条件下的多任务处理都会降低中小学生元认知监测的准确性。然而，这些学生日常的媒体多任务处理活动与元认知监测的准确性并没有显著相关。
