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Developing and Testing a Scale Designed to Measure Perceived Phubbing.

Meredith E David¹, James A Roberts¹

¹Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University, One Bear Place 98007, Waco, TX 76798, USA.

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Summary

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Phubbing, or phone snubbing, is a cycle where being ignored by a phone leads to increased social media use, anxiety, and depression. This study introduces a new measure to assess this behavior and its psychological impacts.

Keywords:

anxiety depression phubbing smartphones social exclusion social media

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Social Media Studies
Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

Phubbing (phone snubbing) is prevalent, with a reciprocal nature observed in its occurrence.
Existing measures for phubbing lack the brevity and validity required for diverse research.
Smartphones' impact on social media use, stress, and depression necessitates further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a concise and valid scale for measuring phubbing.
To validate the perceived phubbing measure within an extended phubbing model.
To examine the relationship between phubbing, social exclusion, social media use, and mental health.

Main Methods:

Study 1: Developed and validated a parsimonious phubbing measure (n=258, M_age=20).
Study 2: Tested and extended an existing phubbing model, validating the new measure (n=157, M_age=39).
Utilized Social Exchange Theory and compensatory internet use models for theoretical grounding.

Main Results:

Phubbed individuals reported increased social media engagement, driven by feelings of social exclusion.
This heightened social media use was significantly correlated with greater reported anxiety and depression.
The developed phubbing measure demonstrated validity and reliability.

Conclusions:

Phubbing contributes to social exclusion, paradoxically increasing social media use.
Increased social media use, linked to phubbing, is associated with adverse mental health outcomes like anxiety and depression.
The study provides a valuable tool for future research on the psychological impacts of phubbing.