Phubber’s Emotional Activations: The Association between PANAS and Phubbing Behavior

Currently, mobile phones are widely used worldwide. Thus, phubbing rapidly became a common phenomenon in our social life. Phubbing is considered by the literature as new form of technology-related addiction that may undermine interpersonal relationships and mental health. Our study contributed to exploring phubbers’ emotional activation no other work has investigated it so far. Indeed, researchers have only explored phubbees’ but not correlates. A sample 419 Italian individuals (143 males) participated data collection on voluntary basis. The results showed related negative affects, positive affects. Moreover, both its components (i.e., communication disturbance, phone obsession) appeared elicit an similar media addiction. These findings help strengthening discussion around consequences virtual environment design, well awareness about what happens at relational level during phubbing.