Abstract:

The concept of nomophobia was formed with the abbreviation of "No Mobile Phone Phobia". Nomophobia means that people experience anxiety and fear when they are deprived of their mobile phones. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between adolescents' nomophobia levels and trait anxiety, basic psychological needs and happiness. This study is a relative screening model which is one of the quantitative research methods. 561 adolescents (349 female and 212 male) consisted of the study group. "Nomophobia Scale (NMP-Q)", "Trait Anxiety Inventory", "The Basic Psychological Need Scale" and "Short Form of the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire" were used to collect data in the study. Pearson correlation coefficientwas calculated to reveal the relationship between the variables and multiple linear regression analysis which is one of the predictive techniques, were used. According to the results of the analysis, there was significant relationship between nomophobia and basic psychological needs satisfaction, trait anxiety, happiness.It was found that the predictor variables together accounted for 10% the variance. According to the significance tests of the regression coefficients, only traitanxiety was a significant predictor of nomophobia.

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