ArticleNature and science of sleep2021
Nomophobia is Associated with Insomnia but Not with Age, Sex, BMI, or Mobile Phone Screen Size in Young Adults.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Psychometric properties of the smartphone distraction scale in arabic among lebanese young adults.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- The relationship between sleep quality and nomophobia among medical students.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Italian Adaptation of the No-Mobile-Phone-Phobia Questionnaire: Factorial Validity with the ESEM Technique and Population-Based Cut-Off Scores.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
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- Exploring risk factors and determinants: A scoping review of factors associated with nomophobia.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Unlocking the potential: Exploring the opportunities for occupational therapists in cyberpsychology.Hong Kong journal of occupational therapy : HKJOT · 2024Article
- The effect of emotion regulation strategies on nomophobia in college students: The masking role of resilience.Heliyon · 2024Article
- The Epidemiology of Nomophobia and Insomnia Among Medical Students in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.Cureus · 2024Article
- The Relationship between Nomophobia, Insomnia, Chronotype, Phone in Proximity, Screen Time, and Sleep Duration in Adults: A Mobile Phone App-Assisted Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- The Prevalence of Mild, Moderate, and Severe Nomophobia Symptoms: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A Social Media Outage Was Associated with a Surge in Nomophobia, and the Magnitude of Change in Nomophobia during the Outage Was Associated with Baseline Insomnia.Clocks & sleep · 2022Article
- Symptoms of Nomophobia, Psychological Aspects, Insomnia and Physical Activity: A Cross-Sectional Study of ESports Players in Saudi Arabia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Planetary sleep medicine: Studying sleep at the individual, population, and planetary level.Frontiers in public health · 2022Review
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Abstract
purposeNOMOPHOBIA (NO MObile PHone PhoBIA) or problematic smartphone use is a psychological disorder in which people are afraid of being cut off from their mobile phones. Currently, there has been no direct assessment of mobile phone screen size in the home setting and its effect on nomophobia and related symptoms, such as insomnia. Thus, we investigated the association between nomophobia, insomnia, and mobile phone screen size in a young adult population in Bahrain. PATIENTS AND
methodsUsing a descriptive, cross-sectional design, we surveyed participants aged 18 to 35 between August and September 2020 using an online questionnaire. Participants completed demographic questions and questions about personal mobile phones, the Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q), and the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI). The mobile phone screen size was determined using an open-source online database. Crude and adjusted regression analyses were fitted to examine the associations between the study variables.
resultsA total of 549 individuals, 54% females, were included in the final analyses. One hundred and fourteen participants (21%) had severe nomophobia, and 81 (14%) had clinical insomnia. A strong positive pair-wise linear association was observed between NMP-Q and ISI β 0.15,
conclusionNomophobia is very prevalent in young adult men and women, and it is closely associated with insomnia, regardless of mobile phone screen size, suggesting that mobile phone screen size should not be used as a proxy for hazardous usage.
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