Phubbing and quality of interpersonal relationship in university students
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2019
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UMT Lahore
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The purpose of the current study was to find the relationship between phubbing, being phubbed and quality of interpersonal relationship in university students. A co-relational research design was used in the current study. The sample of N= 197 university students with the age range of 18-25 years was selected from students of university of the Punjab, university of Management and Technology, University of Central Punjab, Lahore by using non probability convenient sampling. Generic Scale of Phubbing and Generic scale of being Phubbed (Chotpitayasunondh & Douglas, 2018) and Relationship Quality Version (Furman & Buhrmester, 1985) were used to determine phubbing, being phubbed and quality of interpersonal relationship respectively in university students. Findings of the Pearson Product Moment Correlation revealed that phubbing has a significant positive relationship with being phubbed and also has a significant positive relationship with discord which is the subscale of quality of interpersonal relationship. This means that individuals who do phubbing are more likely to be perceived as being phubbed by others and individuals who do phubbing have weak interpersonal relationship. On the other hand, being phubbed has a significant positive relationship with discord which means that people who face phubbing has weak interpersonal relationship. Closeness has significant negative relationship with discord (subscales of quality of interpersonal relationship). Findings of Hierarchal Regression determined the predicting role of phubbing, being phubbed for the quality of interpersonal relationship. Nomophobia was the significant predictor of closeness. The current study will be helpful for clinicians, social workers, teachers to make students, people aware of negative consequences of phubbing and how to protect adults from phubbing.