“…According to the theoretical model of the "stress -sleep" relationship, stressors are not only correlated to sleep quality, but also indirectly correlated to sleep quality through the mediation of stress responses such as physiological responses, cognitive responses, and emotional responses (Yan et al, 2010). Considering that negative emotions, for example, depression and anxiety, are common results of parental phubbing (Xie and Xie, 2020;Wei et al, 2022;Xiao and Zheng, 2022), we speculate that negative emotions as typical emotional responses mediate the relationship between parental phubbing and adolescent sleep quality problems.…”