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Background Television as an Inhibitor of Performance on Easy and Difficult Homework Assignments

MARINA M. POOL

TOM H. A. VAN DER VOORT

JOHANNES W. J. BEENTJES

CEES M. KOOLSTRA

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of two types of background television programs on students' performance on easy and difficult homework assignments. In both experiments, students in Grade 8 (Experiment 1: N = 90; Experiment 2: N = 144) were matched on reading proficiency. Subsequently, the participants were randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions in which they did homework with (a) a Dutch-language soap opera, (b) English-language music videos, or (c) no television in the background. The execution of homework was hindered only when it was combined with watching a soap opera. The distraction effect of the soap opera was expressed either in a performance decrement (Experiment 1) or in an extension of performance time (Experiment 2).

Communication Research, Vol. 27, No. 3, 293-326 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/009365000027003002
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