Evaluation of the factor structure of the Chinese version of the nomophobia questionnaire

Ma, Jianling; Liu, Chang

doi:10.1007/s12144-018-0071-9

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“…Furthermore, validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by conducting regression analysis with number of hours spent on mobile phone as regressor. However, in the Italian version a three-factor structure was found (factor 1: not being able to access information, factor 2: giving up convenience/losing connectedness, and factor 3: not being able to communicate), which is different from the other translated versions (in Spanish, Persian, or Chinese) [12-15].…”

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The Relationship Between Nomophobia and Maladaptive Coping Styles in a Sample of Italian Young Adults: Insights and Implications From a Cross-Sectional Study

Bragazzi

Re²,

Zerbetto³

2019

JMIR Ment Health

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Background Information technologies have become an integral part of the modern society; however, it is speculated that their overuse would result in addiction. Nomophobia refers to the irrational fear of being out of contact with virtual communication platforms. Generally, upon exposure to stress, humans adjust by employing cognitive mechanisms and behavioral efforts known as coping strategies. Objective The goal of the research was to explore coping styles implemented in subjects with nomophobia. Methods This was a cross-sectional study involving young adult participants (undergraduate students and younger subjects) who were recruited via an online survey using a snowball approach. The Italian version of the Nomophobia Questionnaire was administered to subjects. The measurement of coping styles was done using the 28-item Brief COPE questionnaire. Continuous data were computed as means and standard deviations, whereas categorical data were expressed as percentages, where appropriate. Correlation analysis was performed between the Nomophobia Questionnaire and Brief COPE scores. Multivariate regression analyses were conducted in order to shed light on the determinants of each coping style and its association with nomophobia. Results A total of 403 subjects took part in the study. Subjects with higher nomophobia scores responded when confronted with stress with behavioral disengagement (r=.16, P<.001), denial (r=.19, P<.001), self-blame (r=.12, P=.02), self-distraction (r=.22, P<.001), venting (r=.28, P<.001), use of emotional (r=.25, P<.001), and instrumental support (r=.16, P=.001). Conclusion Nomophobia subjects adopt maladaptive coping strategies when confronted with stress. The acknowledgment of how nomophobia subjects react provides insight and introduces a focus for preventative and interventional measures in this population.

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The Relationship Between Nomophobia and Maladaptive Coping Styles in a Sample of Italian Young Adults: Insights and Implications From a Cross-Sectional Study

Bragazzi

Re²,

Zerbetto³

2019

JMIR Ment Health

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“…Factors F1 -F4 are rather interesting as they show a strong positiveness and have statistically significant correlations (p<0.001), ranging from 0.61 (F1 & F2) to 0.80 (F3 & F4). Yildirim and Correia (2015), the questionnaire authors, as well as the experts like Ma and Liu (2018) claim that it refers to the four-dimensional construct. Our research further confirms that the construct has indeed four dimensions and inter-correlated factors.…”

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Nomophobia Among Slovak Adolescents

Holla¹,

Nagyova²

2020

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This study addresses nomophobia as a growing fear in today's worldthe fear of being out of cellphone contact. Our goal was to detect and map nomophobia among the adolescents. The research sample consisted of 404 adolescents aged 15-20. In terms of research methods, we used Yildrima and Correia's (2015) Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q). The questionnaire dimensionality includes four inter-correlated factors. Nomophobia has been identified in the following caseswhen the adolescents could not perform an immediate communication and once they lost the access to information. This phobia was further detected at several levels as moderate (49% of adolescents), mild (38% of adolescents) and severe (12% of adolescents). Our findings are deemed to be important and necessary in providing support for the reasonable cellphone use at schools and related institutions.

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“…Finally, we contemplated a third correspondence formed by students with high levels of nomophobia that were also more associated with the female gender, in addition to the degree titles of Primary Education and Pedagogy, undertaking the first or second year of degree study and being aged between 17 and 20. Thus, sufficient empirical arguments exist for us to conclude that age is a key element with regards to nomophobia, as has been indicated in previous research works [33][34][35].…”

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“…They designed and validated an instrument composed of 20 items in order to measure nomophobia in university students in the United States. Bragazzi et al [32] then adapted this to the Italian context, including just three factors in disagreement with versions of the questionnaire that was previously adapted to Spanish [27,33] and Chinese contexts [34,35]. Prior to this, the mobile phone addiction scale (MPAS) was employed in students from Taiwan [28].…”

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Development of Nomophobia Profiles in Education Students through the Use of Multiple Correspondence Analysis

Rodríguez-Sabiote

Rodríguez

Ferrándiz

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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(1) Background: Nomophobia is a recent behavioural addiction phenomenon. The present study proposes the objective of determining levels of nomophobia in students of Education. In addition, it seeks to find evidence regarding whether cross-tabulating variables produces statistically significant differences and to examine whether the contemplated variables, together with nomophobia levels, can be used to generate a student profile. (2) Methods: A total of 510 students (M = 20.69 years) participated in this study. For the collection of information, we developed a Likert-type ad hoc scale of nomophobia. The quantitative data analysis programmes SPSS v.25 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA), STATA.v.15 (StatCorp, Spring, TX, USA) and jamovi v.1.2 (The jamovi project, Sidney, Australia) were used to analyse information collected by the previously described scale. (3) Results: The study concludes the existence of three main levels of correspondence. The first is formed by students with a low level of nomophobia. It is associated with students undertaking the first year of a Master’s degree who are older than 24, and in this case, gender does not play a discriminating role. The second describes students with moderate nomophobia. It is associated with females, the degree titles of Pedagogy and Primary Education, undertaking the first or second year of degree study and ages of between 21 and 24. Finally, the third level of correspondence is formed by students with high nomophobia. It is related to the same characteristics as those previously mentioned but ages typically ranging between 17 and 20.

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Evaluation of the factor structure of the Chinese version of the nomophobia questionnaire

Cited by 30 publications

References 35 publications

The Relationship Between Nomophobia and Maladaptive Coping Styles in a Sample of Italian Young Adults: Insights and Implications From a Cross-Sectional Study

The Relationship Between Nomophobia and Maladaptive Coping Styles in a Sample of Italian Young Adults: Insights and Implications From a Cross-Sectional Study

Nomophobia Among Slovak Adolescents

Development of Nomophobia Profiles in Education Students through the Use of Multiple Correspondence Analysis

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