A growing fear

By Caglar Yildirim, Evren Sumuer, M. Adnan, Soner Yıldırım. 2016

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of nomophobia (the fear of being out of mobile phone contact) among young adults in Turkey. The Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q) was administered to 537 Turkish college students. The results revealed 42.6% of young adults had nomophobia, and their greatest fears were related to communication and information access. The study also found that gender and the duration of smartphone ownership had an effect on young adults’ nomophobic behaviors, whereas age and the duration of mobile phone ownership had no effect. Based on these results, implications, limitations, and further studies were discussed.

Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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In Communication

1. Ozlem Cakir
2. Hatice Yıldız Durak

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1. Ozlem Cakir
2. Deniz Mertkan Gezgin
3. Burhanettin Özdemir
4. Irshad Hussain
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Citations in the corpus

• Investigation of nomophobia and smartphone addiction predictors among adolescents in Turkey: Demographic variables and academic performance (2019, background): “…on lasi, & Philip, 2013; Blumler & Katz, 1974; Bragazzi & Del Puente, 2014; der & Akin, 2010; Jafarkarimi, Sim, Saadatdoost, & Hee, 2016; Kardefeltrim, 2014; Yildirim, Sumuer, Adnan, & Yildirim, 2015; Yildiz-Durak,2018a) the functionality they allow their phones to do (Kuss & Griffiths, 2017).”
• Analysis of nomofobic behaviors of adolescents regarding various factors (2016, result): “There are some other studies indicating that a rise in the duration of smartphone usage increases nomophobia level (Yildirim & Correia, 2015; Yildirim et al., 2015).”
• Prevalence of Nomophobia among University Students: A Comparative Study of Pakistani and Turkish Undergraduate Students (2018, methodology): “Parallel to the finding of this study with respect to gender effect, there are studies in which female students tend to have higher level of nomophobia (Gezgin & Cakir, 2016; Gezgin et al., 2016: SecurEnvoy, 2012; Tavolacci et al., 2015; Yildirim et al., 2016), while some of them reports the higher ”