Moreno-Guerrero Antonio-José, López-Belmonte Jesús, Romero-Rodríguez José-María, Rodríguez-García Antonio-Manuel
University of Granada, Spain.
AREA (HUM-672) Research Group, Spain.
Heliyon. 2020 May 28;6(5):e04084. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04084. eCollection 2020 May.
Nomophobia is one of the modern pathologies that has been born as a consequence of the impact that portable technologies have had on society and the dependence generated among citizens, especially towards smartphones. This phobia manifests itself and is intensified by the loss of immediate access to information, to the network of contacts, as well as by the impossibility of contacting or being contacted by other people. All this ends up interfering with the development of the person's daily life (physical, physiological, psychological, social problems, among others). Although the research is in an incipient phase, the problem has not been studied with the teaching population, so we present a pioneering study with this group, the main objective being to analyze the prevalence of nomophobia in future teachers of Early Childhood and Primary Education, as well as to check the incidence of rest time in the levels of nomophobia. The study follows a descriptive, correlational, transversal and predictive design and a quantitative methodology. The standardized nomophobia questionnaire NMP-Q was used on a sample of n = 849 future teachers. The results show average levels of nomophobia in most of the variables. However, the higher levels of nervousness, fear or anxiety stand out due to the inability to communicate instantaneously. Also, a higher prevalence of the problem is observed in the sector of the sample that claims to sacrifice rest time due to the use of their mobile phone. Although these numbers are not alarming, we must take into account that in some variables the prevalence is slightly higher, making it necessary to make educational interventions in this regard and to promote education for the responsible and critical use of media and technologies.
无手机恐惧症是一种现代病态心理，它是便携式技术对社会产生影响以及公民之间产生依赖的结果，尤其是对智能手机的依赖。这种恐惧症表现为因无法即时获取信息、联系不上联系人网络，以及无法与他人联系或被他人联系而加剧。所有这些最终都会干扰个人日常生活的发展（包括身体、生理、心理、社会问题等）。尽管这项研究尚处于初期阶段，但尚未针对教师群体进行过相关研究，因此我们针对这一群体开展了一项开创性研究，主要目的是分析幼儿教育和小学教育未来教师中无手机恐惧症的患病率，以及检查休息时间对无手机恐惧症程度的影响。该研究采用描述性、相关性、横向和预测性设计以及定量方法。对849名未来教师的样本使用了标准化的无手机恐惧症问卷NMP-Q。结果显示，大多数变量的无手机恐惧症水平处于平均水平。然而，由于无法即时通讯，紧张、恐惧或焦虑程度较高的情况较为突出。此外，在样本中声称因使用手机而牺牲休息时间的部分，该问题的患病率更高。尽管这些数字并不令人担忧，但我们必须考虑到在某些变量中患病率略高，因此有必要在这方面进行教育干预，并促进对媒体和技术进行负责任和批判性使用的教育。
