Parental Psychological Aggression and Phubbing in Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model

Gao, Tingting; Mei, Songli; Cao, Hua; Liang, Leilei; Zhou, Chengchao; Meng, Xiangyi

doi:10.30773/pi.2022.0142

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“…Pitifully, most previous studies on phubbing mainly focused on its adverse consequences, while only limited research has revealed the potential determinants (Garrido et al, 2021). The previous studies concerning antecedents of phubbing reveal that boredom (Doumit et al, 2023;Lv & Wang, 2023), depression (Sun & Samp, 2021), narcissism (Akat et al,2022;Grieve & March, 2020), parental psychological aggression (Gao et al, 2022), and parental phubbing (Liu et al, 2022) can predict phubbing positively, while open-mindedness (Doumit et al, 2023) and agreeableness (Sun & Samp, 2021) can predict phubbing negatively. However, an important risk factor, social anxiety, has been largely ignored from previous studies.…”

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Social anxiety and phubbing: The mediating role of problematic social networking and the moderating role of family socioeconomic status

Chu,

Chen,

Litifu

et al. 2023

Psychology in the Schools

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Phubbing harms relationships and reduces well‐being of phubbees. However, limited research has explored the potential causes and underlying mechanisms for phubbing; and an important risk factor, social anxiety, has been largely ignored from previous studies. The present study employed a moderated mediation model to examine whether social anxiety was positively related to phubbing, whether problematic social networking mediated the relationship, and whether the first path of this mediating process was moderated by family socioeconomic status. The data of 1379 undergraduates (Mage = 18.84; SD = 0.94) were collected anonymously to test the model. Findings demonstrated that social anxiety was positively linked to phubbing, problematic social networking mediated the linkage, and family socioeconomic status played a moderating role in the first stage. Specifically, the indirect association between social anxiety and phubbing via problematic social networking was stronger for undergraduates with lower family socioeconomic status. Results provide a new perspective for understanding phubbing and highlight the significance of uncovering the underlying mechanisms.

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