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Attention people! Phubbing might ruin your relationship with people

This practice can have a negative impact on your relationship as it threatens our basic human needs, that is belonging, self-esteem, meaningful existence and control, according to a study.

India TV Lifestyle Desk Written by: India TV Lifestyle Desk New Delhi Published on: March 27, 2018 12:57 IST
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Attention lovebirds! Phubbing might ruin your relationship with partner 

In case you don’t know what phubbing means, it’s a combination of phone and snubbing. It is the practice of ignoring someone you’re with a social setting to concentrate on your mobile phone. This practice can have a negative impact on your relationship as it threatens our basic human needs, that are belonging, self-esteem, meaningful existence and control, according to a study.

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.

(With IANS Inputs) 

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