Friday, January 27, 2012

Reprinted from the Kathie Nunley Educator Newsletter, mid January 2012

HOT TOPIC #2:
Watching online videos and media multi-tasking is strongly associated with negative social well-being among 8 - 12 year old girls. Researchers studied how interpersonal media use such as emailing, texting, posting on social media sites as well as non-interpersoanl media use (video watching, music, etc) affected pre-adolescent girls. All types of media use correlated with more negative social well being - though the video watching was strongest. Face-to-face social interaction, however was associated with positive social well-being. Pea, R. (2010) Media use, face-to-face communication, media multitasking, and social well-being among 8- to 12-year-old girls.

Developmental Psychology, Jan 23.

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