Validation of a Revised Parental Phubbing Scale for Parents of Young Children in China
- Resource Type
- Journal Articles
Reports - Research
- Authors
- Juan Li (ORCID 0000-0002-0476-6666); Yue Jiang (ORCID 0009-0002-6964-6275); Bowen Xiao (ORCID 0000-0001-6766-714X); Jingyao Wang (ORCID 0009-0008-1645-9066); Qing Zhang (ORCID 0009-0002-6199-0602); Weifang Zhang (ORCID 0009-0006-2637-0212); Yan Li (ORCID 0000-0002-1330-3057)
- Source
- Early Child Development and Care. 2024 194(2):167-182.
- Subject
- China
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0300-4430
1476-8275
To examine the reliability and validity of revised Parental Phubbing Scale (PPS) and measure the level of parental phubbing, 701 Chinese children aged 3-6 years and their parents were investigated. The results indicated that: (1) the construct validity of the PPS was supported by the best-fit one-factor model; (2) concurrent validity was established by demonstrating that the PPS was positively related to parental smartphone addiction; (3) the PPS was positively correlated with authoritarian parenting style, established the predictive validity; (4) internal reliability was satisfactory. The results also showed that fathers' and mothers' phubbing were at the intermediate level; moreover, phubbing levels were highest among parents aged 31-40. The findings conclude that PPS can be used as a reliable and valid measure to evaluate parents' phubbing and also highlight the need for further research on mothers' and fathers' phubbing.