ArticleClocks & sleep2022
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.
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- The translation and validation of the YouTube addiction scale in modern standard Arabic among emerging and young adults.Discover mental health · 2026Article
- Nomophobia, anxiety, and social comparison orientation: Associations with physical health symptoms among college students.Journal of American college health : J of ACH · 2026Article
- Exploring reasons and coping strategies among nursing students with nomophobia: a qualitative study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The role of FoMO and nomophobia in explaining the relationship between doomscrolling and poor sleep quality.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The association between sociodemographic determinants and nomophobia among physiotherapists in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Avoid and Rule: Selective Sociality Scale for Understanding Introverted Personality in a Digitally Socialized World.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- The effects of mobile phone dependence on athletic performance and its mechanisms.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Correlation Coefficients between Nomophobia and Anxiety, Smartphone Addiction, and Insomnia Symptoms.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The good, the bad, and the ugly of consumer sleep technologies use among athletes: A call for action.Journal of sport and health science · 2023Article
- Development and validation of a questionnaire (GHOST) to assess sudden, unexplained communication exclusion or "ghosting".Heliyon · 2023Article
- 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
- The Tale of Orthosomnia: I Am so Good at Sleeping that I Can Do It with My Eyes Closed and My Fitness Tracker on Me.Nature and science of sleep · 2023Article
- The Prevalence of Mild, Moderate, and Severe Nomophobia Symptoms: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Integration of Sensor-Based and Self-Reported Metrics in a Sleep Diary: A Pilot Exploration.Behavioral sleep medicineArticle
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Abstract
We examined the immediate impact of a social media outage on nomophobia and associated symptoms using a longitudinal cohort design. Data were collected at two timepoints, baseline (T1) and during the social media outage of 4 October 2021 (T2). T1 was collected in August-September 2021 as part of the baseline of an ongoing study. The nomophobia questionnaire (NMP-Q), Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 scale (GAD-7), and Athens insomnia scale (AIS) were administered to 2706 healthy participants from the general Bahraini population (56% females, mean age 33.57 ± 11.65 years). Approximately one month later, during the social media outage, 306 of the study participants were opportunistically assessed using the NMP-Q. At baseline, we found that nomophobia levels strongly correlated positively with both insomnia (
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