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How 'Phubbing' Ruins Relationships

IANS, 27 Mar, 2018 12:10 PM
    The practice of ignoring someone you're with in a social setting to concentrate on your mobile phone -- called "phubbing" -- scan have a negative effect on relationships by threatening our basic human needs -- belonging, self-esteem, meaningful existence and control, a study says.
     
    Unlike other, more well-studied forms of social exclusion, phubbing can take place anywhere and at any time as someone reaches for their phone and ignores their conversation partner, said the researchers.
     
    For the study, published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, psychologists from the University of Kent in Britain studied the effect on individuals of being phubbed in a one-to-one social situation.
     
    The findings showed that increased phubbing significantly and negatively affected the way the victims felt about their interaction with the other person.
     
    Their study involved 153 participants who were asked to view an animation of two people having a conversation and imagine themselves as one of them. 
     
    Each participant was assigned to one of three different situations -- no phubbing, partial phubbing or extensive phubbing.
     
    The results showed that as the level of phubbing increased, people experienced greater threats to their fundamental needs. 
     
    They also perceived the communication quality to be poorer, and the relationship to be less satisfying. 
     
    Phubbing affected the need to belong in particular, which explained the overall negative effects on social interaction, the study said.

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