The Effect of Parental Phubbing on Teenager’s Mobile Phone Dependency Behaviors: The Mediation Role of Subjective Norm and Dependency Intention

Figures & data

Figure 1 The hypothesized model.

Table 1 Descriptive Statistics and Inter-Correlations of Variables in the Current Study (N=602)

	M±SD	1	2	3	4	5	6
1. Gender	–	–
2. Age	16.09±2.89	0.05	–
3. Parental phubbing	2.54±0.79	0.02	−0.04	–
4. Subjective norm	1.73±1.10	−0.04	0.07	0.16***	–
5. Dependency intention	2.64±0.78	−0.06	0.15***	0.14**	0.26***	–
6. Mobile phone dependency	2.04±0.69	0.06	0.09*	0.30***	0.22***	0.35***	–

Notes: Gender was coded as 1=male, 2=female. *P<0.05 **P<0.01 ***P<0.001.

Figure 2 Mediation model of subjective norm and dependency intention between parental phubbing and teenager’s mobile phone dependency. **P<0.01; ***P<0.001.