Locomotion and the preference for multi-tasking: Implications for well-being |
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Authors: | Antonio Pierro Mauro Giacomantonio Gennaro Pica Arie W. Kruglanski E. Tory Higgins |
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Affiliation: | 1. Dipartimento di Psicologia dei Processi di Sviluppo e Socializzazione, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Via dei Marsi 78, 00185, Rome, Italy 2. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA 3. Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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Abstract: | The notion that locomotion concerns with moving from state to state (Higgins et al., Advances in experimental social psychology, Academic Press, New York, NY, 2003; Kruglanski et al., J Pers Soc Psychol 79:793–815, 2000) will instill a positive disposition toward multi-tasking was explored in three studies. Study 1 demonstrated the existence of the hypothesized link between locomotion and multi-tasking in a sample of university students. Study 2 showed that a person-situation fit in organizations based on this preference affects employees’ sense of well being. Finally, Study 3 conceptually replicated the results of Study 2 and demonstrated that the fit effects on well-being from the relation between locomotion and multi-tasking hold when both these variables are manipulated experimentally. These results support the basic idea that individuals with strong locomotion concerns benefit from activities more when they are performed simultaneously rather than sequentially. |
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