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Parents’ phubbing and problematic mobile phone use: the roles of the parent-child relationship and children’s self-esteem
Abstract
An increasing number of mobile phone users check their phones at any time and place, even during in-person interactions. Such behaviors that interrupt social interactions have been described as phubbing. The present study focused on phubbing behaviors within the context of parent-child households and aimed to examine the associations among parents' phubbing, the parent-child relationship, children's self-esteem, and problematic mobile phone use (PMPU) by adolescents. The structural equation model results based on the data collected from 1,721 secondary students revealed that parents' phubbing was not only directly associated with children's PMPU but also indirectly associated with PMPU through the mediating roles of the parent-child relationship and children's self-esteem after gender and age were controlled. These findings suggest a possible underlying mechanism for the relationship between parents' phubbing and children's PMPU, and could thus inform interventions to prevent or decrease PMPU among adolescents. Limitations and implications are discussed.
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“estudios empíricos han ilustrado que el phubbing de los padres puede disminuir la autoestima de sus hijos (Hong et al., 2019).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hong, W., Liu, R.-D., Ding, Y., Oei, T. P., Zhen, R., & Jiang, S.
- Affiliations
- Beijing Normal University (CN)
- Fordham University (US)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Hangzhou Normal University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Liu, Ru-De
- Venue
- Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2019-12-01
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 779-786
- ISSN
- 2152-2715 (ISSN-L)
- 2152-2723
- OpenAlex
- W2990299942
- Cited by
- 159
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2026: 21 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 29 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 9
- FWCI
- 23.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- phubbing, problematic mobile phone use, parent-child relationship, children's self-esteem, adolescents, parental smartphone use, social media use, mediation, high school students
- MeSH terms
- Cell Phone Use, Latent Class Analysis, Adolescent, Adult, Child, Family Characteristics, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Parent-Child Relations, Parents, Self Concept, Students
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