An Investigation of the Fear of Interest with Smartphone (Nomofobi) in the Context of Some Demographical Variables: A Field Survey

Increasing the use of technological devices in our daily life and the widespread use of smart phones facilitate our lives, but also have brought many social and psychological problems. At the top of these problems is nomophobia, which is defined as “fear of being deprived of a smartphone”. The study is aimed at examining whether the nomophobia levels of consumers differ by different demographic variables. In this study performed on nomophobia, which is considered as the plague of the era, the survey method was used as a data collection tool and the data were analyzed using the SPSS 22.0 program. In this context, the sample of this research, but not limited to just a region or place, bears qualification a research all over Turkey. The surveys were applied to a total of 560 people, and after the surveys that found to be missing or incorrectly filled out by the participants were excluded from the research, analyzes were performed on the remaining 554 surveys. The effect of gender and marital status variables, which consist of demographic questions, on nomophobia and nomophobia sub-dimensions were examined with independent sample t-test. The effect of the difference between the variables of age, education, and year of birth on the nomophobia and nomophobia dimensions was made using the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). In the research finding, it was found that while nomophobia levels differ according to gender, year of birth, marital status, there was no difference according to educational status.

Keywords

Nomophobia, Smartphone, Smartphone Addiction, Addiction.