Phubber’s Emotional Activations: The Association between PANAS and Phubbing Behavior

Future Internet

Franco Bagnoli¹  Andrea Guazzini²  Mirko Duradoni²  Tommaso Raimondi²  Benedetta Biagini² 

[1] Centre for the Study of Complex Dynamics, University of Florence, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy;Department of Education, Literatures, Intercultural Studies, Languages and Psychology, University of Florence, 50135 Florence, Italy;

关键词: phubbing;    social media addiction;    emotional activation;    PANAS;   

DOI  :  10.3390/fi13120311

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Currently, mobile phones are widely used worldwide. Thus, phubbing rapidly became a common phenomenon in our social life. Phubbing is considered by the literature as a new form of technology-related addiction that may undermine interpersonal relationships and mental health. Our study contributed to exploring phubbers’ emotional activation as no other work has investigated it so far. Indeed, researchers have only explored phubbees’ but not phubbers’ emotional correlates. A sample of 419 Italian individuals (143 males) participated in our data collection on a voluntary basis. The results showed that phubbing is related to negative affects, but not to positive affects. Moreover, phubbing in both its components (i.e., communication disturbance, phone obsession) appeared to elicit an emotional activation similar to that of social media addiction. These findings may help in strengthening the discussion around the emotional consequences of virtual environment design, as well as the awareness about what happens at a relational level during phubbing.

【 授权许可】

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