The Role of Polychronicity in Emergency Multitasking

The study in hand probes the variation in multitasking performance levels high and low polychronic females under both normal and emergency conditions of multitasking. For this purpose, the sample of 200 young adult females with mean age of 21 yrs was taken up, in equal proportion from the tricity of Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula. 'Index of Polychronic Values Scale' by Bluedorn et.al (1999) and a self developed simulated task for multitasking was used for the study. t- ratios were computed to arrive at the results.