Country indicators moderating the relationship between phubbing and psychological distress: a study in 20 countries

Agata Błachnio; Aneta Przepiórka; Oleg Gorbaniuk; Monika McNeill; Rebecca Bendayan; Mithat Durak; Emre Senol-Durak; Menachem Ben-Ezra; Martina Benvenuti; Alan Angeluci; Ana Maria Abreu; Meiko Makita; María J. Blanca; Tihana Brkljacic; Nenad Babič; Julia Gorbaniuk; Juraj Holdoš; Ana Ivanova; Sadia Malik; Anita Milanovic; Bojan Musil; Igor Pantic; Belén Rando; Gwendolyn Seidman; Lancy D’Souza; Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele; Mariusz Wołońciej; Anise M. S. Wu; Shu Yu; Elvis Mazzoni

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.588174

Country indicators moderating the relationship between phubbing and psychological distress: a study in 20 countries

Agata Błachnio^*, Aneta Przepiórka, Oleg Gorbaniuk, Monika McNeill, Rebecca Bendayan, Mithat Durak, Emre Senol-Durak, Menachem Ben-Ezra, Martina Benvenuti, Alan Angeluci, Ana Maria Abreu, Meiko Makita, María J. Blanca, Tihana Brkljacic, Nenad Babič, Julia Gorbaniuk, Juraj Holdoš, Ana Ivanova, Sadia Malik, Anita MilanovicBojan Musil, Igor Pantic, Belén Rando, Gwendolyn Seidman, Lancy D’Souza, Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele, Mariusz Wołońciej, Anise M. S. Wu, Shu Yu, Elvis Mazzoni

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Problematic mobile phone use can be related to negative mental states. Some studies indicate that behavioural dependency is related to variables associated with the country of origin. The aim of our study was to investigate if country indicators moderated the relationship between phubbing and psychological distress. Our sample consisted of 7,315 individuals from 20 countries, who completed the Phubbing Scale and the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K6). The analyses also included country indicators: the Gender Gap Index (GGI), the Human Development Index (HDI), the Social Progress Index (SPI), Hofstede’s dimensions of culture, and the World Happiness Index (WHI). Our results showed that psychological distress was related to at least one dimension of phubbing (i.e., to communication disturbance or phone obsession) in all countries, which means this relationship is culturally universal. The results of the study demonstrate the importance of testing measurement invariance to determine what type of analysis and what type of conclusion are valid in a given study or comparison. Moreover, the increasing or decreasing correlation between phubbing and distress is related to some culture-level indices.

Original language	English
Article number	588174
Number of pages	11
Journal	Frontiers in Psychology
Volume	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.588174
Publication status	Published - 24 Dec 2021

Keywords

Country indicators
Culture
Distress
Mobile phone addiction
Phubbing

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Błachnio, A., Przepiórka, A., Gorbaniuk, O., McNeill, M., Bendayan, R., Durak, M., Senol-Durak, E., Ben-Ezra, M., Benvenuti, M., Angeluci, A., Abreu, A. M., Makita, M., Blanca, M. J., Brkljacic, T., Babič, N., Gorbaniuk, J., Holdoš, J., Ivanova, A., Malik, S., ... Mazzoni, E. (2021). Country indicators moderating the relationship between phubbing and psychological distress: a study in 20 countries. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 588174. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.588174

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