Partner Phubbing Scale Test
How the Scales are Structured
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Example Questions From the Test
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- All the time
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- All the time
- Never
- Rarely
- Sometimes
- Often
- All the time
Partner Phubbing Scale Test - Description and methodology of the test
People who feel that a phone is intruding on shared time can use the Partner Phubbing Scale Test to examine a specific relationship pattern rather than rely on a general impression. The partner phubbing questionnaire focuses on how visible, available, and attention-demanding a smartphone becomes during interaction. Its result offers a structured starting point for discussing habits, boundaries, and the quality of couple communication.
What This Assessment Explores
The assessment is intended for someone examining whether a partner’s smartphone habits compete with attention, conversation, or shared activities. It focuses on observable situations rather than broader judgments about love, commitment, or relationship satisfaction. The result describes perceived frequency and intensity of phone-related distraction, with higher values indicating more disruptive phubbing.
The displayed result uses one scale, Partner Phubbing, ranging from 1-5: Low 1-1.9, Moderate 2-3.3, and High 3.4-5. A partner phubbing assessment can be read through these item themes:
- Phone visibility measures how often the device is in view or held during shared time, showing its continuing presence in interaction.
- Notification-driven checking reflects how readily alerts interrupt conversation, including moments that otherwise hold attention.
- Phone use during joint activities covers checking at meals, free time, pauses, or conversation, indicating when device use competes with connection.
Methodology and Evidence Base
Each prompt offers five options, from Never to All the time, and asks the respondent to judge partner behavior in shared situations. Items cover phone visibility, checking after notifications, use during meals or free time, and checking during conversation or pauses. The displayed result does not specify whether responses are summed, averaged, or reverse-scored; do not infer those details from wording alone, because one item describes not using a phone while talking.
The evidence base is closest to the Pphubbing Scale, a published measure of smartphone distraction by a romantic partner. This online questionnaire is conceptually consistent with that instrument, but is not presented as a direct adaptation or normed reproduction. The Portuguese validation study and a later psychometric study add context for the construct and the scale.
Research on phubbing in relationships supports reading the result as a snapshot of perceived phone interference, not relationship quality as a whole. Self-report can vary with memory, conflict, and expectations about availability. No normative sample is specified for this online scoring presentation; interpret it alongside examples, current context, and conversation.
- Roberts, James A., and Meredith E. David. (2016). My life has become a major distraction from my cell phone: Partner phubbing and relationship satisfaction among romantic partners. Computers in Human Behavior, 54, 134-141. 10.1016/j.chb.2015.07.058
- Água, Joana, Matheus G. Lourenço, Ivone Patrão, and Isabel Leal. (2019). Partner phubbing: Portuguese validation. Psicologia, Saúde & Doenças, 20(1), 234-241. 10.15309/19psd200119
- Teixeira, Iara do Nascimento, and Sandra Elisa de Assis Freire. (2020). Partner Phubbing Scale: Evidence of Psychometric Adequacy. Summa Psicológica UST, 17(1), 42-48. 10.18774/0719-448x.2020.17.420
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