Distraction and wellbeing
October 02, 2016
One of the key emergent themes from my pilot study was that of technology as a distraction or a means of procrastination and this having a perceived negative effect on our sense of wellbeing. Rosen et. al (2013) find a negative connection between looking at social media during lectures and academic performance and suggest using “technology breaks” in a similar fashion to a coffee break to mitigate this.