The Role of Interpersonal Cognitive Distortions between Phubbing and Relationship Disillusionment among Newly Married People

The purpose of the present study was to examine the role of interpersonal cognitive distortion between phubbing and relationship disillusionment. Relationship disillusionment is feelings of disappointment, regret, defeat and hopelessness in the relationship (Niehuis et al., 2011). Phubbing behavior, misperception, unrealistic expectation and rejection feeling contribute to relationship disillusionment. Sample consisted of newly married peoples from Sargodha Divisions in Punjab, Pakistan (N = 225). A cross-sectional research design and purposive sampling technique was used to collect data. 'The Phubbing Scale' developed by Karadağ et al. (2015), interpersonal cognitive distortions scale by Hamamci and Buyukozturk (2004) and relationship disillusionment by Niehuis and Bartell (2006) were used. The finding indicated that all variables were correlated in the expected directions and all subscales of interpersonal cognitive distortions moderate the relation of phubbing with relationship disillusionment. Moreover, women experienced higher relationship disillusionment than men. This investigation focused exclusively on newly married people. Future studies should incorporate a sample with more diverse characteristics and also need to develop intervention programs that will help partner to control phubbing behavior and interpersonal cognitive distortions to improve interpersonal relation.