The relationship between five factor personality traits and nomophobia levels among university students

The present research was carried out with the purpose of scrutinizing the relationship between five-factor personality traits and nomophobia. In the scope of the study, the relationship between nomophobia and smartphone use habits were also investigated. The research was compiled through correlational design. The sample of the study comprised 414 undergraduate students (254 female and 160 male) studying in Yeditepe University. The data was obtained via demographic form prepared by researcher, The Big Five Inventory (John et al., 1991; Schmitt et al., 2007), and Nomophobia Questionnaire (Yildirim & Correia, 2015; Yildirim et al. 2016). In the main analyses of the study, the correlations between the study variables were examined with Pearson correlation analysis. The differences between university students' nomophobia levels in terms of demographic variables and smartphone use habits were assessed by one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and independent samples t-test. The results of the research brought to light relationships between extraversion, neuroticism, and openness to experience traits and nomophobia level. Furthermore, the study revealed that gender, department type, and all smartphone use habits were significantly correlated with nomophobia. Current study provided an insight regarding one of psychological indicators of nomophobic behavior that is considered as important to understand the phenomenon better and to develop more effective intervention programs.