The increasing utilization of use of mobile phone while on the one hand facilitates daily lives of individuals on the other hand are causing also many type of social and psychological problems. One of the these problems, is nomophobia which is defined as the fear of being without mobile phone. There is a lot of factors cause rising the nomophobia level. It is considered that one of these, the sense of belongingness. The main purpose of this research, is to investigate whether there is a relationship between the feeling of belongingness with nomophobia and to examine the influence of sense of belongingness on nomophobia. As samples, 106 the vocational college tourism students were selected. The survey consists of three parts; personal information form, belongingness scale and nomophobia scale. In the analysis of the data, mean, frequency and percent distributions as well as correlation and regression analyses were used. In the analysis, it was determined that the students used mobile phones for an average of 5.5 years and spent an average of 4.7 hours per day on mobile phones. It has been determined that students use mobile phones most to send messages and enter social networks. According to the findings of the study, it was found that the students' the sense of belongingness were above average level and nomophobia levels were at the average. Also, it was identified that the students feel anxious about not being able to communicate and not being able to access device. According to the results of the correlation analysis, it has been found that an opposite direction and weak correlation between belongingness and nomophobia. The research results indicated that sense of belongingness affected nomophobia level as statistically significant level and sense of belongingness predicts 22.7% of nomophobia
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