The relationship between parental phubbing and social anxiety in emerging adulthood students: a serial mediation model

Parental phubbing positively and directly affects the social anxiety of emerging adulthood students, and a higher level of shyness and fear of negative evaluation further aggravate social anxiety. These findings provide not only empirical support for the cognitive behavioral framework of social anxiety, but also have practical implications for the intervention of social anxiety in emerging adulthood students.