This book focuses on the effects of phubbing by parents on their
children, partners on their partners, bosses on their employees, friends
on their friends, and family members on other family members. Having
synthesised the findings from published research about the specific
effects on these phubbed individuals in important relationships, the
book then presents an exposition of the psychological predictors of
phubbing (the triggers), followed by a broader account of the
psychological effects of phubbing behaviour. The final chapter looks at
the role of social norms in explaining the act of phubbing beyond the
individual predictors that trigger the behaviour as it tries to draw a
connection between phubbing and social theory.