Research Article: Why Cannot I Stop Phubbing? Boredom Proneness and Phubbing: A Multiple Mediation Model

Abstract:
With the increasing richness of functions, smartphone, like an accessory organ, have gradually become an inseparable part of people’s lives. While smartphone have brought many conveniences to people (eg, online learning and chatting), their negative effects (eg, phubbing) have become more prominent, gradually emerging as a major academic concern., Phubbing, which is a combination of “phone” and “subbing”, refers to the act of snubbing or ignoring other people by concentrating on one’s cell phone in social interactions. The term was included in the updated version of Macquarie Dictionary in . The same year, “Stopphubbing” website (https://www.stopphubbing.com) was launched to call for global attention to this social issue. As a common phenomenon in the era of mobile internet, phubbing is widely observed in family, work, and study environments.– David and Roberts believe that phubbing is a form of social exclusion and interpersonal neglect, which has a potential negative impact on people’s social life. For example, in terms of the quality of interpersonal relationships, the mere presence of mobile phone might interfere with human relationship formation, partner phubbing can reduce relationship satisfaction; In terms of the happiness of interpersonal objects, parental phubbing may enhance adolescents’ alienation, supervisor phubbing can increase subordinates’ psychological distress and reduces employees’ supervisor identification; In terms of the behavior of interpersonal objects, parental phubbing can decrease the academic engagement of elementary students, and increase adolescents’ learning burnout, interpersonal aggression and smartphone addiction., In terms of the mental health of interpersonal objects, phubbing can threaten the basic psychological needs of the phubbees, such as belonging, self-esteem, control and meaningful existence, parental phubbing positively predicts adolescents’ depressive symptoms, alexithymia and suicidal ideation.

Introduction:
With the increasing richness of functions, smartphone, like an accessory organ, have gradually become an inseparable part of people’s lives. While smartphone have brought many conveniences to people (eg, online learning and chatting), their negative effects (eg, phubbing) have become more prominent, gradually emerging as a major academic concern. , Phubbing, which is a combination of “phone” and “subbing”, refers to the act of snubbing or ignoring other people by concentrating on one’s cell phone in social…

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