Relationship between nomophobia and fear of missing out among Turkish university students

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Nazire Burcin Hamutoglu
Deniz Mertkan Gezgin
Gozde Sezen-Gultekin
Orhan Gemikonakli

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The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between no mobile phobia (nomophobia) which is defined as a modern fear of being unable to communicate through the mobile phone, and Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) which is known to be related with the problematic relationship with Social Networking Sites (SNSs), and play a critical role in the increased use of Social Networking Sites (SNS). The data were collected from a convenient sample of 538 university students via Nomophobia (NMP-Q) and FOMO Scales, The results show that a positive moderate level of relationship was found between Nomophobia and FOMO levels. The findings showed that FOMO level of university students predicts 41% of the total variance at the Nomophobia level. That is, when FOMO level increases, students’ nomophobia level can be predicted from data depicting the increase. 

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Hamutoglu, N. B., Gezgin, D. M., Sezen-Gultekin, G., & Gemikonakli, O. (2018). Relationship between nomophobia and fear of missing out among Turkish university students. Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 13(4), 549–561. https://doi.org/10.18844/cjes.v13i4.3464
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