Even after controlling for how much media the student used each day as well as personality traits such as neuroticism and extraversion, both of which have been shown to be related to depression, they found that students who engaged in more media multitasking showed more symptoms of depression as well as more symptoms of social anxiety. In fact, media use in general was not associated with social anxiety, but media multitasking, attempting to use more than one media form at the same time, was related to social anxiety. In the previously mentioned study that examined predictors
