Off-task social media multitasking during class: determining factors and mediating mechanism

• Autores: Liping Deng, Yujie Zhou, Qingchun Hu
• Localización: International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, ISSN 2365-9440, Nº. 19, 2022
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Framed by social learning theory, the study examines a set of personal and social factors determining of-task social media multitasking inside university classrooms. We aim to clarify the relationships between social media multitasking and self-efcacy, intrinsic motivation, multitasking preference as well as peer distraction, and to elucidate the interactive relationships between these factors. Questionnaire data from 203 university students in China show that academic self-efcacy fully mediates the association between intrinsic motivation and of-task multitasking. Moreover, multitasking preference partially mediates the association between peer distraction and of-task multitasking during class time. The fndings of the study contribute to a deeper understanding of why students multitask during class, which can inform the development of strategies for combating social media distraction and enhancing students’ learning engagement.