Investigation of Nomophobia Levels of Secondary School Students in Terms of Some Variables

Oct 15, 2026

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Nomophobia, defined as the fear of staying away from smartphones, has become a significant concern in students’ daily lives. This quantitative, cross-sectional study measures the nomophobia level of 8th grade secondary school students and examines whether it varies by gender, overall GPA, parents’ education status, parents’ profession, and family monthly income. Using the Nomophobia Scale and a demographic information form, results show no significant differences across the investigated variables.

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Investigation of Nomophobia Levels of Secondary School Students in terms of Some Variables* Merve ÇOLAK1 Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Eylem YALÇINKAYA-ÖNDER2 Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Abstract Nomophobia, a newborn concept that has become an important part of our lives in recent years due to effective use of smart phones in daily life, can be defined as “fear of staying away from smartphones”. The aim of this study was to determine the nomophobia level of 8th grade students and to determine whether the nomophobia levels of the students differ according to the variables such as gender, overall grade point average, parental education status, parental profession, and monthly income of the family. In this quantitative research, cross-sectional survey research model was used.“Nomophobia Scale” developed by Yildirim and Correia (2015) and “The Demographic Information Form” were used as data collection tools. According to the findings; the nomophobia levels of 8th grade students did not differ by gender of the students, overall grade point average, educational status of the parents, profession of the parents and monthly financial amount of the family. Keywords: Nomophobia, Gender, Secondary School Students, GPA, Mother Education Status, Father Education Status, Mother Profession, Father Profession, Family Income. DOI: 10.29329/epasr.2020.270 .5 *This study was produced from Merve Çolak's master's thesis titled as " Investigation of nomophobia levels of secondary school students in terms of some variables". 1MS, Faculty of Education, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey, ORCID: 0000-0002-1817-4899 [Correspondence](Correspondence: merveyakut93@gmail.com)[: merveyakut93@gmail.com](Correspondence: merveyakut93@gmail.com) 2Assist. Prof. Dr., Faculty of Education, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey, ORCID: 0000-0003-1306-9931, E mail: [eylemyk@gmail.com](eylemyk@gmail.com) Introduction We are living in the age of technology and parallel to the rapid development of science and technology, it is seen that technology affects the way of life of society. Researches indicated that the age of use of technological products has decreased until the primary school age (Şalcı, Karakaya, and Tatlıeşme, 2018) . In particular, information technology has become an indispensable part of our lives. The best example of information technology is mobile phones. In recent years, mobile phones evolved as smart phones attract people of all ages and make people addicted to mobile phones. In recent years, the level of dependence has increased with the development of smart phones (Demirci, Orhan, Demirdas, Akpinar, and Sert, 2014) . People spend most of their time talking and texting via smartphones and accessing the up to date information via their phones. While children use mobile phones to chat and follow the outside world, they become dependent on mobile phones (Aljomaa, Qudah, Albursan, Bakhiet, and Abduljabbar, 2016) . Mobile phones, which are being used to follow the outside world, can cause children to break away from the outside world. Children's addiction to mobile telephones and spending most of their days using them can negatively affect their course success (Jacobsen and Forste, 2011) . This addiction to mobile telephony can cause physical discomfort such as burning in the eyes, drowsiness in the eyes, pain in the neck muscles, as well as disruptions in academic achievement, sleep disturbances and disruptions in activities in the social field. Addiction to mobile phone leads to the problem of nomophobia. Nomophobia is a term used to describe people's anxiety about not using their phones at their fingertips (King, Valença, Silva, Sancassiani, Machado, and Nardi, 2014) . The concept of nomophobia was first introduced in 2008 by a postal administration survey in the UK (Erdem et al. 2017) . Nomophobia, the abbreviation of “no mobile phone phobia”nomophobia is the "fear of staying without a smart phone"

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What is nomophobia in this study?

Nomophobia is defined as the fear of staying away from smartphones.

Which variables were tested for differences in students’ nomophobia levels?

The study tested gender, overall GPA, parents’ education status, parents’ profession, and family monthly income.

What method and instruments were used to collect data?

A quantitative cross-sectional survey model was used with the Nomophobia Scale and a Demographic Information Form.

Oct 15, 2026

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