Abstract:

Nomophobia, which is accepted as the disease of today, is defined as fear of being deprived of mobile phone. The aim of this study is to reveal the changes in the nomophobia levels of teachers according to their demographic characteristics and smartphone usage habits. The study group of the research conducted in the relational screening model consists of 290 teachers working in public and private educational institutions and organizations in Sakarya province. In the study, measuring problematic mobile phone use: Development and Preliminary Psychometric Properties of the PUMP Scale adapted by Merlo, Stone and Bibbey (2013) were used as data collection tools. According to the results of the study, there was no significant difference between the demographic characteristics of teachers such as gender, educational background, branch, institution and professional seniority, and there was a significant difference between age variable and nomophobia level. Another result is that there is no significant difference in nomophobia levels of teachers according to smart phone usage year; It was found that there was a significant difference between the range of charging and controlling smart phones and panic situations when they forgot their smart phones..

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