ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
Romantic relationship satisfaction and phubbing: The role of loneliness and empathy.
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- Resilience and loneliness among older adults: an analysis using decision tree techniques.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2025Article
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- How Does Being Phubbed Affect Commitment? Exploring the Roles of Emotional Loneliness and Relationship Satisfaction.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2025Article
- A meta-analytic study of partner phubbing and its antecedents and consequences.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Media dependency, platform-swinging, and psychological depression among young college students in the polymedia environment.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The relationship between childhood trauma and romantic relationship satisfaction: the role of attachment and social support.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Partner phubbing and relational aggression in romantic relationships among young adults in China: the roles of social support and gender.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
This study investigates the effects of loneliness and empathy on romantic relationship satisfaction and phubbing. Loneliness plays a mediating role in romantic relationship satisfaction and phubbing. The level of empathy moderates these mediating effects. Five hundred and four Chinese adults completed tests of romantic relationship satisfaction, phubbing, loneliness, and empathy. The results show that romantic relationship satisfaction is negatively correlated with phubbing. Loneliness mediates this process. Specifically, lower romantic relationship satisfaction leads to more phubbing by increasing loneliness. Our study also shows that the mediating relationship is moderated by the level of empathy. To be more specific, the higher the level of empathy, the stronger the impact of romantic relationship satisfaction on loneliness, and the more phubbing individuals exhibit.
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