"Constant, constant, multi-tasking craziness": managing multiple working spheres
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Personality and motivations associated with Facebook use
Computers in Human Behavior
Computers in Human Behavior
Why do i keep interrupting myself?: environment, habit and self-interruption
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
All the news that's fit to post: A profile of news use on social networking sites
Computers in Human Behavior
The influence of personality on Facebook usage, wall postings, and regret
Computers in Human Behavior
Habits make smartphone use more pervasive
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Motives for Facebook use and expressing "true self" on the Internet
Computers in Human Behavior
Internet use and multitasking among older adolescents: An experience sampling approach
Computers in Human Behavior
Who does what on Facebook? Age, sex, and relationship status as predictors of Facebook use
Computers in Human Behavior
Comparing actual and self-reported measures of Facebook use
Computers in Human Behavior
Loneliness, anxiousness, and substance use as predictors of Facebook use
Computers in Human Behavior
A mixed method approach to examining Facebook use and its relationship to self-esteem
Computers in Human Behavior
Gender differences in mediated communication: Women connect more than do men
Computers in Human Behavior
Facebook and texting made me do it: Media-induced task-switching while studying
Computers in Human Behavior
Computers in Human Behavior
Attachment style, social skills, and Facebook use amongst adults
Computers in Human Behavior
The digital natives as learners: Technology use patterns and approaches to learning
Computers & Education
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Current approaches to measuring people's everyday usage of technology-based media and other computer-related activities have proved to be problematic as they use varied outcome measures, fail to measure behavior in a broad range of technology-related domains and do not take into account recently developed types of technology including smartphones. In the present study, a wide variety of items, covering a range of up-to-date technology and media usage behaviors. Sixty-six items concerning technology and media usage, along with 18 additional items assessing attitudes toward technology, were administered to two independent samples of individuals, comprising 942 participants. Factor analyses were used to create 11 usage subscales representing smartphone usage, general social media usage, Internet searching, e-mailing, media sharing, text messaging, video gaming, online friendships, Facebook friendships, phone calling, and watching television in addition to four attitude-based subscales: positive attitudes, negative attitudes, technological anxiety/dependence, and attitudes toward task-switching. All subscales showed strong reliabilities and relationships between the subscales and pre-existing measures of daily media usage and Internet addiction were as predicted. Given the reliability and validity results, the new Media and Technology Usage and Attitudes Scale was suggested as a method of measuring media and technology involvement across a variety of types of research studies either as a single 60-item scale or any subset of the 15 subscales.