No significant differences in attention or working memory were found between intervention and control groups at either follow-up¶
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q2 i? Neither time nor the intervention produced significant differences in attention or working memory at the 4-week or 4-month assessments; no effect sizes were printed for these null findings. → Kelly Quinn 2018
Evidence¶
Kelly Quinn 2018¶
Kelly Quinn. (2018). Cognitive Effects of Social Media Use: A Case of Older Adults. Social Media + Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118787203
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Mixed ANOVA results for the symbol digit modalities test (attention) and Wechsler Digit Span (working memory) in the wait-list controlled study; Table 2 reports η2 values of .006, .003, .000 and .000 for these between-group contrasts. Equivalence was not tested.
"No significant differences related to either time or the intervention in attention or working memory were evidenced between the control and intervention groups at either the 4-week or the 4-month mark."
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No significant differences in attention or working memory were found between intervention and control groups at either follow-up |
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No significant differences in attention or working memory were found between intervention and control groups at either follow-up |
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