Paper Info
Title
The relationship between monochronicity, polychronicity and individual characteristics
Abstract
With the increasing complexity of control rooms and the information explosion, effective multitasking is now desired. Monochronicity and polychronicity, which describe a person's ability to do one thing and many things at a time, respectively, have been studied for a long time. However, it is not clear these abilities are related to various individual characteristics. Forty-eight Chinese participants were tested on their perception, memory, judgement, attention ability and cognitive style. They also performed a task that required search and calculation under three conditions of unpaced, paced and paced with sequencing. There were significant differences in the performance and strategy between monochronic and polychronic individuals in the selective attention test. Monochronic individuals focused their attention on the primary task and achieved higher performance. Polychronic individuals had somewhat better total performance in more than one task under time-constrained conditions. The results clearly indicate that an individual's time use behaviours ought to be considered in training and control scenarios to account for differences among people.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1080/01449290903222697
Behaviour & IT
Keywords
Field
DocType
individual characteristic,higher performance,control room,polychronic individual,primary task,attention ability,long time,selective attention test,monochronic individual,total performance,time use behaviour,cognitive abilities,attention,individual differences,multitasking,selective attention,cognitive ability,cognitive style
Social psychology,Polychronicity,Judgement,Psychology,Selective attention,Human multitasking,Information explosion,Cognition,Perception,Cognitive style
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
29
2
0144-929X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.49
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ravindra S Goonetilleke19613.76
Yan Luximon2405.03