Parents' phubbing increases Adolescents' Mobile phone addiction: Roles of parent-child attachment, deviant peers, and gender

Phubbing is a kind of social exclusion and is used to indicate the interruption mobile phone usage has on a social relationship. Theoretical and practical evidence illustrates that parents' behavior have a strong influence on adolescents' deviant behaviors. The present study aimed to determine if adolescents' mobile phone addiction increase after being phubbed by parents, and examine effects of the mediating roles of parent-child attachment,...