Longitudinal Relationships of Phubbing, Depression, and Anxiety in the Middle and High School Students: A Cross‐Lagged Panel Network Analysis

Successfully regulating negative emotions can play a pivotal role in tackling the root causes linked to phubbing. Apart from addressing restlessness, future interventions focusing on nomophobia and interpersonal conflict in middle school students, as well as self-isolation in high school students, contributed to mitigating phubbing, depression, and anxiety.