Partner Phubbing in Intimate Relationships: What Do We Know So Far? A First Systematic Literature Review and Qualitative Critique of the Evidence
Creators: name: Frackowiak, Michal
name: Russell, P.
name: Hilpert, Peter
name: Vanden Abeele, Mariek
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Science
subject: Quantitative Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: co-present mobile phone use
subject: couples
subject: interactions
subject: intimate relationships
subject: phubbing
subject: technoference

description: This page serves as a pre-registration protocol of a systematic literature review that the contributors are planning on conducting. The research that will be qualitatively evaluated in this systematic review concerns the phenomenon of partner phubbing ("phone snubbing") in intimate relationships. The review process will strictly follow the PRISMA guidelines for reporting systematic reviews (Moher et al., 2009). The search of literature and final selection of the publications to be included will be conducted in April 2022. Each of the included publications will be qualitatively evaluated in terms of conceptualisation and operationalisation of phubbing behaviour; additionally, the critical appraisal tool (AXIS) will be applied (Downes et al., 2016) to synthesise the collected findings. The content of this pre-registration follows guidance by Straus and Moher (2010) for systematic review registrations. ______________________________________________________________ Topic: mobile phone use in interactions between partners as a behavior that disturbs an interaction. At the time of the pre-registration, all the researchers are aware of the problematic terminology that seems to be distinguished in the literature ("phubbing", "technoference", "co-present mobile phone use", etc.), yet in many cases they seem to describe the same phenomenon, based on the conceptualization and operationalization. Inclusion / eligibility criteria: a) Type of studies: quantitative or mixed-method data (to accommodate any statistical analyses and correlates), excluding theoretical articles, case studies, and qualitative research. b) Language: English c) Population of interest: couples or people in intimate relationships (dyads or individual participants) d) Inclusion of non-peer reviewed articles (subject to modification if the number of peer-reviewed articles is not satisfactory). e) No timeframe (although the term "phubbing" has been coined in 2012, we do not aim to restrict ourselves with the terminology. As mentioned above, other terms may describe identical behavior, and these publications could have been produced earlier). f) Data bases taken into consideration: pubmed ScienceDirect Web of Science Google Scholar (additional search) g) Algorithm: (phubbing OR partner phubbing OR technoference OR co-present phone use OR problematic phone use OR phone snubbing OR technology interruptions OR phone interference) AND (romantic relationships OR partner OR intimate relationships OR close relationships OR couples) The literature search based on the algorithm and databases defined above will be conducted in April 2022, followed directly by the write-up. ______________________________________________________________ Author statement: Michal Frackowiak will be responsible for the literature search and selection of the publications that will be included in the systematic review, followed by secondary approval from Mariek Vanden Abeele and Pascale Sophie Russell. The project is supervised by Peter Hilpert. Michal Frackowiak will be responsible for the write-up of the systematic review, but additional feedback, comments and edits will be sought from the remaining contributors. Any changes to the author statement will be reported in the publication write-up.