The Relation Between Involvement In College Activities And The Ability To Multitask

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The Relation Between Involvement In College
Activities And The Ability To Multi-task

• Lindsey Hummel, Rachel Weisenbach, Heather
  Osterman
• Hanover College

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Introduction

• Statements
• We are involved college students
• We have to multi-task to go to school and be
  involved.
• Questions
• If there is a connection with multi-tasking and
  involvement
• would there be more emphasis placed on
  involvement?

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Hypothesis

• ? involvement ? multi-tasking ability
• ? involvement ? multi-tasking ability
• Theories on involvement and multi-tasking
• Bottleneck theory (Meyer Kieras, 1997 Pashler,
  1992)
• Critical thinking (Gellin, 2003)

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Key Terms

• Multi-tasking
• Multi-tasking being able to do two or more
  things at one time
• Problem-solving (Fraser Tucker, 1997)
• Involvement
• Activity work, clubs, jobs, Greek Life,
  volunteering, sports
• Co-curricular and extracurricular activities
  (Cooper, Healy, Simpson, 1994)

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Research Question

• Does a persons involvement level influence ones
  multi-tasking ability?

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Participants

• N 20 Hanover College Students
• All Caucasian
• 70 Female 30 Male
• Average age 19.75 years
• Average GPA 3.17

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Materials Procedure

• Involvement
• Questionnaire
• Alpha 0.66
• Multi-tasking
• Card
• Word
• Drawing
• Alpha 0.66

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Results

• Negative correlation between multi-tasking and
  involvement, r(20) - 0.251, p 0.286

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Limitations, Future Research Discussion

• Questionnaire
• EII (Winston Massaro, 1987)
• Tasks
• Real-life
• Implications
• College counselors input
• Employment opportunities