Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Corresponding Author: Dr. Brandon T. Phone: Fax: The current abundance of technology in daily life creates opportunities for interruptions in couple interactions, termed technoference or phubbing. The current study examined reports from both partners in romantic relationships who completed daily surveys on technoference and relational well-being measures across 14 days. By using daily diary data, we were able to examine within-person associations and more closely approximate everyday life.
Utilizing multilevel modeling, we found that on days when participants rated more technoference than usual, they felt worse about their relationship, perceived more conflict over technology use, rated their face-to-face interactions as less positive, and experienced more negative mood.
These relationships existed even after controlling for general feelings of relationship dissatisfaction, depression, and attachment anxiety, and there were no significant differences between women and men in these associations.
Keywords: Technoference, phubbing, relationship satisfaction, problematic phone use, depression, couple conflict. The majority of U. However, most of these previous studies have been cross-sectional and focused on individual-level rather than couple-level data. The current study expands this work by examining reports from both partners in romantic relationships who completed daily surveys on technoference and emotional and relational well-being measures across 14 days.
The empirical research on technology interference in couple relationships spans only a few years. In the earliest studies on this phenomenon, researchers found that technoference or partner phubbing among U.
