- Title
- More than a preference for online social interaction : vulnerable narcissism and phubbing
- Creator
- Grieve, Rachel; Lang, Cathryne; March, Evita
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/176355
- Identifier
- vital:15115
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110715
- Identifier
- ISBN:0191-8869 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- This study was the first to examine whether the relationship between vulnerable narcissism and phubbing (phone snubbing) can be explained by preference for online social interaction. Participants (N = 402) completed measures of narcissistic vulnerability, phubbing, and preference for online social interaction, along with measures of grandiose narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and social anxiety, which were included as covariates in a mediation analysis. As hypothesised, preference for online social interaction mediated the vulnerable narcissism—phubbing relationship, however this effect was only partial, with narcissistic vulnerability still having a significant and positive direct effect on phubbing. These results indicate that phubbing may allow individuals with vulnerable narcissism to meet contingent self-esteem needs—i.e., needs which are more readily managed through the asynchronous and more controllable online environment—but that other aspects of narcissistic vulnerability also drive phubbing behaviours. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Relation
- Personality and Individual Differences Vol. 175, no. (2021), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
- Subject
- 1701 Psychology; 1702 Cognitive Sciences; Mobile phone; Phone snubbing; Phubbing; Preference for online social interaction; Smartphone; Social anxiety; Uses and gratifications theory; Vulnerable narcissism
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