How “phubbing” becomes the norm: The antecedents and consequences of snubbing via smartphone

The effects of “phubbing” on social interaction

“…In particular, people often ignore others with whom they are physically interacting in order to use their smartphone instead. This phenomenon, called phubbing , seems to have become normative in everyday communication (Chotpitayasunondh & Douglas, ). One recent study reported that 90% of respondents used their smartphones during their most recent social activity, and also perceived that 86% of the others involved in the social interaction did the same (Ranie & Zickuhr, ).…”

“…Some recent research has investigated the antecedents of phubbing behavior. The most important determinant appears to be smartphone addiction (Chotpitayasunondh & Douglas, ; Karadağ et al, ). More distal predictors such as Internet addiction, fear of missing out, and self‐control have been found to predict smartphone addiction, which in turn predicts phubbing behavior.…”

“…More distal predictors such as Internet addiction, fear of missing out, and self‐control have been found to predict smartphone addiction, which in turn predicts phubbing behavior. Also, Chotpitayasunondh and Douglas () have demonstrated that phubbing behavior itself predicts the extent to which people are phubbed, so that being a phubber can result in a vicious, self‐reinforcing cycle of phubbing that makes the behavior become normative. Research on the effects of phubbing suggests that it may create negative, resentful reactions such that people perceive their interaction to be of poorer quality (Ranie & Zickuhr, ), are less satisfied with their interactions (Abeele, Antheunis, & Schouten, ), trust their interaction partner less (Cameron & Webster, ), feel less close to their interaction partner when a phone is present (Misra, Cheng, Genevie, & Yuan, ), and experience jealousy (Krasnova, Abramova, Notter, & Baumann, ) and deflated mood (Roberts & David, ).…”

Neuroticism, Trait Fear of Missing Out, and Phubbing: The Mediating Role of State Fear of Missing Out and Problematic Instagram Use

“…Despite the fact that FoMO is an emerging construct in a technological context, there has been a growing empirical literature investigating the role of this phenomenon on problematic online behaviors (Kuss and Griffiths 2017). Some of these studies have found that FoMO is associated with higher problematic smartphone and social media use (Chotpitayasunondh and Douglas 2016;Elhai et al 2016;Oberst et al 2017;Wegmann et al 2017), which are also predictors of phubbing (Karadağ et al 2015).…”

Partner Phubbing: um estudo sobre as causas e implicações do uso (excessivo) do Smartphone nos Relacionamentos Amorosos

“…As consequências do uso de smartphones para a qualidade das interações sociais entre os indivíduos têm causado preocupação, pois, os telefones celulares podem diminuir a qualidade das relações interpessoais, produzindo um efeito, onde as pessoas são desviados do face-a-face com as outras (CHOTPITAYASUNONDH;DOUGLAS, 2016). Os autores ainda destacaram em seus estudos que outras pesquisas já relataram que onde os smartphones estavam presentes acontecia níveis mais baixos de preocupação e empatia em comparação com aqueles que tinham a ausência de um telefone sobre a mesa, além de encontrarem níveis mais baixos de relação percebida na qualidade, confiança no parceiro e empatia percebida na presença de celulares.…”