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The Psychology of Phubbing

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Psychology Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-7045-0

ISBN: 978-981-19-7047-4

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore - Springer Journals

Oct 30, 2022

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Chapter 1Introduction

Al-Saggaf, Yeslam

Pages: 1 –8

[This book focuses on the effects of phubbing by parents on their children, partners on their partners, bosses on their employees, friends on their friends, and family members on other family members. Having synthesised findings from published research about the specific effects on these phubbed...
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Chapter 2Parents’ Phubbing of Children

Al-Saggaf, Yeslam

Pages: 9 –19

[Parents’ phubbing of their children is epidemic. The empirical evidence shows that parents’ phubbing can be extremely harmful to children. Ignoring children in favour of the smartphone can signal disinterest in them, heighten their feelings of rejection, and lower their feelings of being...
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Chapter 3Partner Phubbing

Al-Saggaf, Yeslam

Pages: 21 –31

[There is strong evidence that people are more likely to phub their partners than they would phub anyone else they encounter face to face, including their closest friends, other friends, siblings, children, parents, acquaintances, and even strangers in the street. But partner phubbing is...
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Chapter 4Boss Phubbing

Al-Saggaf, Yeslam

Pages: 33 –42

[The literature indicates that boss phubbing is becoming increasingly common in workplaces. The consequences of boss phubbing are severe, for both the business and staff well-being, with the loss of employees’ trust in their bosses, as a result of boss phubbing, being the often-cited negative...
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Chapter 5Phubbing Family Members and Friends

Al-Saggaf, Yeslam

Pages: 43 –53

[Family and friends phubbing are neglected areas of research. The limited research available indicates that younger family members’ phubbing of older adults was interpreted to mean they were not significant in their younger family members’ lives and not deserving of their attention. Family...
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Chapter 6Psychological Predictors

Al-Saggaf, Yeslam

Pages: 55 –66

[Scholars identified several predictors for phubbing behaviour, but addictions to smartphones, social media, the internet, gaming, and instant messaging, consistently held the highest predictive power for phubbing. Fear of missing out came in second spot, followed by personality traits, such as...
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Chapter 7Psychological Effects

Al-Saggaf, Yeslam

Pages: 67 –78

[Having highlighted in previous chapters specific effects of phubbing experienced by individuals in important relationships, namely children phubbed by their parents, partners phubbed by their loved ones, and employees phubbed by their supervisors as well as those who experienced being phubbed by...
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Chapter 8Social Norms

Al-Saggaf, Yeslam

Pages: 79 –89

[This chapter examines the role of theory in phubbing behaviour. It first tries to see if technological determinism and mediation theory could serve as theoretical frameworks from within which phubbing as a behaviour could be better understood. But, then realises that social norms could shed more...

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