Measurement invariance of the Phubbing Scale across 20 countries

• Autor(a) principal: Błachnio, Agata
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Przepiórka, Aneta, Gorbaniuk, Oleg, Bendayan, Rebecca, McNeill, Monika, Angeluci, Alan, Abreu, Ana Maria, Ben-Ezra, Menachem, Benvenuti, Martina, Blanca, Maria J., Brkljacic, Tihana, Babić, Nenad Čuš, Gorbaniuk, Julia, Holdoš, Juraj, Ivanova, Ana, Karadağ, Engin, Malik, Sadia, Mazzoni, Elvis, Milanovic, Anita, Musil, Bojan, Pantic, Igor, Rando, Belen, Seidman, Gwendolyn, D'Souza, Lancy, Abeele, Mariek M. P. Vanden, Wołońciej, Mariusz, Wu, Anise M. S., Yu, Shu
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/43274
• topic: Countries; Gender; Invariance; Mobile phone addiction; Phubbing

Mobile phone addiction is a robust phenomenon observed throughout the world. The social aspect of mobile phone use is crucial; therefore, phubbing is a part of the mobile phone addiction phenomenon. Phubbing is defined as ignoring an interlocutor by glancing at one's mobile phone during a face-to-face conversation. The main aim of this study was to investigate how the Phubbing Scale (containing 10 items) might vary across countries, and between genders. Data were collected in 20 countries: Belarus, Brazil, China, Croatia, Ecuador, India, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, UK, Ukraine and USA. The mean age across the sample (N = 7696, 65.8% women, 34.2% men) was 25.32 years (SD = 9.50). The cross-cultural invariance of the scale was investigated using multigroup confirmatory factor analyses (MGCFA) as well as the invariance analyses. Additionally, data from each country were assessed individually via confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs). We obtained two factors, based on only eight of the items: (a) communication disturbances and (b) phone obsession. The 8 items Phubbing Scale.