Abstract:

As smartphones have a clear place in our lives, many activities have become quite easy. Access to information, communication, entertainment, and other elements at any time appears to be quite attractive, but over time the negative aspects of this technology have also begun to appear. The known psychological harm of these technologies is the fear of the absence of mobile phones (nomofobia). This study aims to identify the influence of individual levels of self-regulation on nomofobia. For this purpose, a number of telecommunications companies in the province of Muş have been conducted with their employees. The data collected by the survey technique was analyzed by the method of structural equality modeling of partial least squares (PLS). The results of the analyses have shown that self-regulation has a negative and meaningful effect on non-access to information, loss of commitment, failure to communicate and abandonment of facility, which are the subdimensions of nomofobia. Research is an original study of the aspects of the study of nomofobia from the point of view of business literature and focusing on the effect of self-regulation. Therefore, research findings are expected to contribute to the relevant literature.

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