Smartphone addiction and sleep quality.

What is it about?

Experiencing peer phubbing is likely to affect adolescents’ quality of life negatively. The current study adopted structural equation modeling to explore the relationship between peer phubbing, individual mental health (i.e., psychological distress), behavior problems (i.e., problematic smartphone use), and physical functioning (i.e., daytime sleepiness and subjective sleep quality).

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Why is it important?

These findings suggested that peer phubbing could cause psychological distress to children and adolescents, increase their problematic smartphone use and daytime sleepiness, and decrease their subjective sleep quality. Interventions for children and adolescents with daytime sleepiness or poor subjective sleep quality should pay attention to their problematic smartphone use and the phubbing from their peers.