ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
Smartphone addiction and phubbing behavior among university students: A moderated mediation model by fear of missing out, social comparison, and loneliness.
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- The association between fear of missing out and mobile phone addiction: a meta-analysis.BMC psychology · 2023Pooled it
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- Volitional control and cell phone addiction: development of a pathway mode.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- The developmental trajectories of phubbing in Chinese adolescents: a variable-centered and person-centered perspective.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The Mediating Role of Self-Esteem in the Relationship Between Loneliness and Phubbing: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- A manual three-step latent profile analysis to discover phubbing risk profiles among university students.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The Effects of Social Media Addiction, Academic Stress, and Sleep Quality on Anxiety Symptoms: A Cross-Sectional Study of Chinese Vocational Students.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Article
- Mobile phone addiction and academic burnout: the mediating role of technology conflict and the protective role of mindfulness.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Why mobile social media-related fear of missing out promotes depressive symptoms? the roles of phubbing and social exclusion.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Why Cannot I Stop Phubbing? Boredom Proneness and Phubbing: A Multiple Mediation Model.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- Effects of use motivations and alexithymia on smartphone addiction: mediating role of insecure attachment.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Introduction: This article examines mediators and moderators that may explain the link between smartphone addiction and phubbing behavior using a sample of 794 university students. Methods: A mediation model was tested to test the hypothesis that social comparison orientation and fear of missing out would mediate the link between smartphone addiction and phubbing behavior. Additionally, a moderated mediation model was leveraged to examine loneliness as a moderator within the hypothesized model. The data collected were analyzed using SPSS. Results and Discussion: The findings show a significant positive relationship between smartphone addiction and phubbing behavior. The findings confirm the hypothesized associations and reveal that smartphone addiction is positively linked to phubbing behavior. The link, on the other hand, is partially and sequentially mediated by the fear of missing out and social comparison orientation. As a result, both mediators might be regarded as proximal variables of phubbing behavior. Moreover, the associations between both smart addiction and phubbing behaviors as well as social comparison orientation and phubbing behaviors are moderated by loneliness. These two effects were stronger for university students with high loneliness than for those with low loneliness. This study addresses a major gap in the clinical psychology literature through the attempt to explore the relationship between smartphone addiction and increased phubbing behavior among university students.
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