An Assessment of Nomophobia Situation of IT Students: An Example of Eastern Mediterranean University

The rapid improvement of technology among technical devices such as smart phone, provide more learning opportunities beyond the classroom in educational environment. However, beside these advantages and effects of smartphone use on educational setting, there are disadvantages, which have negative effect on learners. One of which is a phenomenon known as nomophobia. This is a psychological condition regarded as fear of being without mobile phone or not being able to access the Internet on mobile phone. The aim of this study is to investigate an assessment of nomophobia situation among IT students in Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU). The research method of the study was quantitative survey approach using Nomohpobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q). To reach this aim, 205 questionnaires were gathering among Information and Technology (IT) students from four different age group and two diverse genders. The gathered data of the study is analyzed with descriptive statistics, mean, frequency standard deviation, percentage, t-Test and Anova. The Findings revealed that participants have almost high-level nomophobic behavior and female participants have more predisposed to nomophobic situations in comparison with male participants and the students between ages 21-25 struggled more with the effects of nomophobia when compared to the other age groups. Additionally, according to t-Test analysis, nomophobia is significant on gender of IT students. Moreover, consistent with Anova analysis, nomophobia has significance on age of participants.