Adaptação de uma escala de Phubbing para a população portuguesa

Abstract

Throughout life, the human being developed and built different interpersonalrelationships in different contexts, since it deals with a being who is always searching forways to become socially active, and for a sense of belongness. There are several authorswho have been developing instruments to evaluate Phubbing, which concerns the fact thata person uses the cell phone during a real interaction with friends/ family/ romanticpartner. This study aims to: (1) Adapt the Phubbing Scale (PS) to the Portuguesepopulation; (2) Establish convergent and divergent validity with other scales (PartnerScale e Nomophobia Questionnaire); (3) Establish differences and/or relationshipsbetween sociodemographic variables and variables related to the time of cell phone useand Phubbing. The Portuguese version of the Phubbing Scale kept the number of itemsand factors, however, distributed differently from the original version. About thecorrelations, they were defined by the scale with other instruments that ensure convergentvalidity. Statistically significant differences were found in the Phubbing Scale related tosociodemographic variables (gender, professional status, having children and age) and tosome variables related to cell phone use (minutes of cell phone use per day).

Date of Award	19 Jan 2022
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Ângela Leite (Supervisor)