Investigation of Nomophobia Levels of Vocational School Students According to Demographic Characteristics and Intelligent Phone Use Habits

Autor:	Ayse Alkan, Metin Cengel, Ezgi Pelin Yildiz
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Data collection 05 social sciences Applied psychology Nomophobia 050301 education 050801 communication & media studies Vocational school Likert scale 0508 media and communications Phone Mobile phone Scale (social sciences) Psychology 0503 education Mobile device
Zdroj:	Higher Education Studies. 10:132
ISSN:	1925-475X 1925-4741
DOI:	10.5539/hes.v10n1p132
Popis:	Nomophobia, which is accepted as the disease of today, is defined as the fear of being deprived of mobile phone. The aim of this study is to reveal the changes of nomophobia levels of Vocational School students according to demographic characteristics and smartphone usage habits. The study group consisted of 250 students studying at Hendek Vocational School of Sakarya University. The research was conducted in relational survey model. In this research, Measuring Problematic Mobile Phone Use: Development and Preliminary Psychometric Properties of the PUMP Scale developed by Stone and Bibbey (2013) was used as data collection tool. The scale consists of 20 items, 5-point Likert scale “Strongly Disagree-Disagree-Undecided-Agree-Strongly Agree” was used in answering the scale items. The scale supports a single factor structure. Internal consistency coefficient was found to be excellent (α = .94) and strong correlations between items (
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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