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Descriptive Study to Assess the Risk of Developing Nomophobia among Adolescents in Selected PU Colleges at Bangalore with a View to Develop an Information Booklet on Prevention of Nomophobia
Abstract
OBJECTIVES:
(1) To assess the level of risk of developing nomophobia among adolescents.
(2) To assess the pattern of mobile phone usage among adolescents.
(3) To correlate between the pattern of mobile phone usage and risk of developing nomophobia among adolescents.
(4) To find out the association between the level of risk of developing nomophobia and selected socio-demographic variables among adolescents.
(5) To develop an information booklet on prevention of nomophobia.
(4) DESIGN: Descriptive survey design was selected for the study.
(5) SUBJECTS: The participants were 100 adolescents in selected PU Colleges at Bangalore.
(6) SAMPLING METHOD: Non- probability convenient sampling technique was used to select the sample of the study.
(7) DATA COLLECTION TOOL: Nomophobia Assessment Likert Scale was used to collect the data from the subjects.
(8) DATA ANALYSIS: The obtained data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics and interpreted in terms of objectives and hypothesis of the study. The level of significance was set at 0.05 levels.
(9) RESULTS: There is a statistically significant association between the risk
level and selected socio demographic variables like age (χ 2= 7.83*), gender (χ2=
4.93 *), education subject opted (χ 2=28.19*), source of information (χ2= 15.80*), religion (χ2= 15.12), type of family (χ 2= 9.15*) and family income/month (χ 2= 6.94*)were found to be significantly associated at 5% level and the rest of the demographic variables like number of siblings, place of residence and using smart phone did not show any significant association with risk level of adolescents. There
was a moderately positive correlation between pattern of mobile phone usage and risk of nomophobes (r =+0.83*) which was significantly associated at 0.05 levels.
CONCLUSION: Among 100 adolescents under study, majority (74.0%) of them had moderate risk level, (26.0%) of them had severe risk level, none of them had mild risk level, and none of them fall under no risk level. These findings indicates that the adolescents had moderate risk of developing nomophobia and as there is increased in mobile addiction there will be increase in the risk of developing nomophobia.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijnn.v4i1.591
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