Abstract
Mobile phone ownership and use is prolific in many countries like Turkey, with the numbers of people owning and using mobile phones rising rapidly in recent years. Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. The term, an abbreviation for "nomobile-phone phobia", was coined during a study by the UK Post Office who commissioned YouGov, a UK-based research organisation to look at anxieties suffered by mobile phone users. The study found that nearly 53 percent of mobile phone users in Britain tend to be anxious when they “lose their mobile phone, run out of battery or credit, or have no network coverage.â€Empathy is a potential psychological motivator for helping others in distress. Empathy can be defined as the ability to feel or imagine another person’s emotional experience. The ability to empathize is an important part of social and emotional development, affecting an individual’s behavior toward others and the quality of social relationships. The concept of empathic tendency is ability demonstrate the potential emotional empathy of the individual. The Empathic Tendency Scale developed by Dökmen (1988) was used in the determination of empathic tendencies level of the participants. The aim of this study, examine the relationship between teachers’ empathic tendency and nomophobia. In the study, data will collect from 389 prospective teachers. Research applications and data analysis is underway. Keywords: Nomophobia, empathy, empathic tendency, prospective teachers.
Highlights
The scientific and technological boost in the recent years certainly facilitates the major tasks of the people such as transport and health
The internet and other phone applications provide instant access to information in almost every field and are used as an effective tool. They are used as a learning tool for miscellaneous courses
Some of the recent studies are regarding the usage of the smart phone as a tool of learning a second language (Kingsley, Mustaffa, Keikhosrokiani & Azimi, 2016), study of the attitudes toward the usage of the smart phones in the professional development of the teacher and the learning-teaching process (Ekanayake & Wishart, 2015), in the professional development of the teachers and teacher candidates (Burden and Kearney, 2016; Herrington, Ostashewski, Reid & Flintoff, 2014), and regarding the usage of the smart phones in order to provide students general and distance learning opportunities (Hartnell-Young & Heym, 2008; Herrington, Herrington & Olney, 2012)
Summary
The scientific and technological boost in the recent years certainly facilitates the major tasks of the people such as transport and health. The internet and other phone applications provide instant access to information in almost every field and are used as an effective tool. The subject’s age varied between 12 and 18 age of years and the volunteers were asked to spend eight hours without accessing any communication tool (mobile phones, internet etc.). They were not allowed to use their computers or any other electronic tools, radios or TVs. they were not allowed to use their computers or any other electronic tools, radios or TVs They were allowed to perform many “conventional” activities on their own: writing, reading, playing a musical instrument, drawing, sewing, singing, walking etc. Almost all of the subjects grabbed their earphones immediately (Brightside, 2016) These findings indicated the over dependency of the young generation to the technological devices. Individuals could be addicted to the Internet and they could have depression, low self-esteem, oversensitivity, guilt and despair (Gezgin & Cakir, 2016)
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