Impact of Phubbing on Relationship Closeness and Jealousy in Working Women

Abstract

Technology advancementhasbridged the communication gap with distant others while causing disruptionamong those physically present, i.e., “technoference or phubbing”, which leads to jealousy,orthe feeling of being ignored, and distant relationship. The current study examined the role of phubbing on relationship closeness and jealousy among married working women through a Generic Scale of Phubbing(GSP; Chotpitayasunondh & Douglas, 2018), Multidimensional Jealousy Scale(MJS; Pfeiffer & Wong, 1989), and Unidimensional Relationship Closeness Scale(URCS; Dibble et al., 2012). The co-relational research design was employed. The sample consisted of N= 200 participants, age range 25-35 (M = 21.09, SD = 1.94), determined through G* power, and gathered via a convenient sampling strategy. Findings revealed phubbing and its subdomains have a significant relationship with relationship closeness and jealousy, however, dimensions vary.Linear regression demonstrated thatbeing phubber is a significantpositivepredictor of relationship closeness and negative predictor ofjealousy.