ArticleFrontiers in psychology2024
Prevalence of phubbing behaviour in school and university students in Spain.
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- Psychological Factors Applicable to App Development for Overcoming Problematic Smartphone Use: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach.Psychiatry investigation · 2026Article
- The effect of smombie and phubbing levels on psychological well-being in adolescents.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- The correlation between phubbing and depression anxiety stress of first-year medical students: the mediating role of sedentary behavior.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Linking mindfulness to phubbing among college students: a longitudinal mediation analysis of attentional control and dual-system self-control.Australian journal of psychology · 2026Article
- Phubbing behaviors and psychological well-being: correlates and sociodemographic profiles in university students from Mexico, Colombia, and Peru.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Analysis of Phubbing Among University Students: A Study of Its Prevalence, Incidence Factors and Predictors.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- When smartphones take over: a mixed methods study of phubbing in child and adolescent psychiatry.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- A manual three-step latent profile analysis to discover phubbing risk profiles among university students.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Linking adolescents' phubbing to depression: the serial mediating effects of peer relationship quality and psychological need frustration.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
Objective: This study examined the prevalence of phubbing behavior among school and university students in Spain and analyzed the correlation of phubbing with other indicators of psychological well-being and mental health. Methods: The study sample comprised a total of 1,351 school and university students, with ages ranging from 12 to 21 years. The study used the Phubbing Scale (PS), the Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS), the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE), and the Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (IERQ) for data collection. Results: The results showed evidence of phubbing among approximately half of the students. Statistically significant differences were found based on gender and educational level in the Phone Obsession subscale and the PS total score, with male students and university students scoring higher in their respective parameters. In addition, phubbing was positively correlated with problematic internet use and negatively correlated with self-esteem. Conclusion: Phubbing behavior is highly prevalent among adolescents aged 12-21 years and is positively correlated with low self-esteem and problematic internet use. Developing strategies for addressing this widespread issue at early ages, particularly within the educational context, such as schools, is crucial for implementing preventive measures. The inappropriate use of technological devices, including smartphones, in schools has the potential to negatively affect students' well-being and ability to adapt to school.
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