TY - JOUR PY - 2012// TI - Media use, face-to-face communication, media multitasking, and social well-being among 8- to 12-year-old girls JO - Developmental psychology A1 - Stillerman, Benjamin A1 - Meheula, Lyn A1 - Nass, Clifford Ivar A1 - Pea, Roy A1 - Zhou, Michael A1 - Nass, Matthew A1 - Bamford, Holden A1 - Kumar, Aman A1 - Simha, Aneesh A1 - Rance, Marcus A1 - Yang, Steven SP - 327 EP - 336 VL - 48 IS - 2 N2 - An online survey of 3,461 North American girls ages 8-12 conducted in the summer of 2010 through Discovery Girls magazine examined the relationships between social well-being and young girls' media use--including video, video games, music listening, reading/homework, e-mailing/posting on social media sites, texting/instant messaging, and talking on phones/video chatting--and face-to-face communication. This study introduced both a more granular measure of media multitasking and a new comparative measure of media use versus time spent in face-to-face communication. Regression analyses indicated that negative social well-being was positively associated with levels of uses of media that are centrally about interpersonal interaction (e.g., phone, online communication) as well as uses of media that are not (e.g., video, music, and reading). Video use was particularly strongly associated with negative social well-being indicators. Media multitasking was also associated with negative social indicators. Conversely, face-to-face communication was strongly associated with positive social well-being. Cell phone ownership and having a television or computer in one's room had little direct association with children's socioemotional well-being. We hypothesize possible causes for these relationships, call for research designs to address causality, and outline possible implications of such findings for the social well-being of younger adolescents.

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LA - en SN - 0012-1649 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0027030 ID - ref1 ER -