20.500.12556/DKUM-89720 Country indicators moderating the relationship between phubbing and psychological distress A Study in 20 Countries Problematic mobile phone use can be related to negative mental states. Some studies indicate that behavioural dependency is related to variables associated with the country of origin. The aim of our study was to investigate if country indicators moderated the relationship between phubbing and psychological distress. Our sample consisted of 7,315 individuals from 20 countries, who completed the Phubbing Scale and the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K6). The analyses also included country indicators: the Gender Gap Index (GGI), the Human Development Index (HDI), the Social Progress Index (SPI), Hofstede’s dimensions of culture, and the World Happiness Index (WHI). Our results showed that psychological distress was related to at least one dimension of phubbing (i. e., to communication disturbance or phone obsession) in all countries, which means this relationship is culturally universal. The results of the study demonstrate the importance of testing measurement invariance to determine what type of analysis and what type of conclusion are valid in a given study or comparison. Moreover, the increasing or decreasing correlation between phubbing and distress is related to some culture-level indices. country indicators culture phubbing mobile phone addiction distress indikatorji držav kultura zasvojenost z mobilnimi telefoni stress true true true Frontiers Research Foundation Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2024-08-07 13:32:17 2024-08-07 13:55:42 2024-08-09 08:11:59 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2021 0 0 Str. 1-11 Št. članka 588174 Letn. 12 2021 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2020-07-28 2021-11-03 2021-12-24 159.95 92066051 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.588174 1664-1078 Blachnio-2021-Country_Indicators_Moderating_th.pdf Blachnio-2021-Country_Indicators_Moderating_th.pdf 1 4DD20CF6A74DC8A8D7970FD30098A94B 20705ef133103e90cf41990d992b005eaecaf14f7f9018cc8bbea0ca810ef5ed c9f653dd-54b3-11ef-b534-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=182100 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.588174 0 b9b1e488-54b0-11ef-b534-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=182097 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0