Phubbee
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Someone who is or has been phubbed.
"Phubbing is the behavior of an individual's continuous or excessive use of smart phones, which can cause indifference to others, delay, loneliness, anxiety, and other mental disorders (Afdal et al., 2019; Tan et al., 2013). In this social interaction, there are two types of persons: phubbers and phubbees. The former are the originators of phubbing, and the later are the recipients of phubbing (Chotpitayasunondh and Douglas, 2018a). Phubbing not only causes psychological harms to phubbees, but also has a negative impact on the phubbers (Bulut and Nazir, 2019). Cognitive-behavioral theory also posits that individuals' cognition and emotions could affect their behaviors, in the same way, behaviors could also affect cognition and emotions (Chen et al., 2016). However, prior studies had focused more on the influence of phubbing on phubbees, such as the influence of phubbing on the partner's depression and the influence of parental phubbing on children's academic burnout and depression (Bai et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2020; Xie and Xie, 2020), few researchers have paid attention to the influence of phubbing on the phubbers themselves and its influencing mechanism."
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More examples"Phubbing is the behavior of an individual's continuous or excessive use of smart phones, which can cause indifference to others, delay, loneliness, anxiety, and other mental disorders (Afdal et al., 2019; Tan et al., 2013). In this social interaction, there are two types of persons: phubbers and phubbees. The former are the originators of phubbing, and the later are the recipients of phubbing (Chotpitayasunondh and Douglas, 2018a). Phubbing not only causes psychological harms to phubbees, but also has a negative impact on the phubbers (Bulut and Nazir, 2019). Cognitive-behavioral theory also posits that individuals' cognition and emotions could affect their behaviors, in the same way, behaviors could also affect cognition and emotions (Chen et al., 2016). However, prior studies had focused more on the influence of phubbing on phubbees, such as the influence of phubbing on the partner's depression and the influence of parental phubbing on children's academic burnout and depression (Bai et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2020; Xie and Xie, 2020), few researchers have paid attention to the influence of phubbing on the phubbers themselves and its influencing mechanism."
Etymology
From phub + -ee.
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