Assessment on risk of developing nomophobia among adolescents in selected PU colleges

Ashis Shrestha ,Mayuri Kesavan,R Rajesh

doi:10.18231/j.jeths.2020.025

Abstract

Background: The term Nomophobia (NO MOBILE PHONE PHOBIA) is used to describe a psychological condition when people have a fear of being detached from mobile phone community. It is just like an addiction that harms the person’s physical and mental health. Aim: To know the extent of risk in developing Nomophobia among the adolescents. Materials and Methods: A descriptive survey approach with non-experimental research design was adopted for the study. Non- probability convenient sampling technique was used to select the 100 adolescents from Narayana PU College at Bangalore. Nomophobia Assessment Likert Scale was used to collect the data from the subjects with 35 items through self administered method. The obtained data were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The level of risk of developing Nomophobia among the adolescents was 74% with moderate level of risk and 26% of the adolescents were at severe level of risk in developing Nomophobia. The study findings also stated that the relationship between the pattern of mobile phone usage and risk of developing Nomophobia was positively correlated r= +0.83 at p Conclusion: The result of the study is indicative in increasing the risk of developing Nomophobia among younger generation. Further research and multi-centric studies are required to investigate more in depth on the psychological aspects and solutions of Nomophobia. Keywords: Nomophobia, Adolescents, Mobile phone addiction.

Highlights

6 So during the visits to different schools and colleges for school mental health programme, as a investigator we found that most of the adolescent use mobile phone, and tend to be anxious when they lose their mobile phone
On towards to response of mobile addiction 65% of them said they heard about the term earlier and 35% of them said the information was through their friends and family member, 71% of adolescents were from nuclear family
On relationship the present study showed a positive correlation between the domains of mobile usage and risk of developing nomophobia, which is supported by a study

Summary

Introduction

2. There are various psychological factors are informed when a person overuse to mobile phones like a low self-esteem, extrovert personality, nomophobic due to mobile phone addiction or existing anxiety disorders as nomophobic symptom. The risk of developing Nomophobia among adolescents is a growing fear in today’s world with fear of being without a mobile device or beyond mobile phone contact. 6 So during the visits to different schools and colleges for school mental health programme, as a investigator we found that most of the adolescent use mobile phone, and tend to be anxious when they lose their mobile phone. 3. Statement of the Problem “A descriptive study to assess the risk of developing Nomophobia among adolescents in selected PU colleges at Bangalore, with a view to develop an information booklet on prevention of Nomophobia.”.

Objectives

Methods

Results

Conclusion