Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education Sciences and Psychology, University Rovira i Virgili, Carretera de Valls, s/n, 43007 Tarragona, Spain.
Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 25;20(5):4128. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20054128.
The development of new technologies (ICTs), and specifically the invention of smartphones, has offered users enormous benefits. However, the use of this technology is sometimes problematic and can negatively affect people's lives. Nomophobia has been defined as the fear of being unreachable by means of a smartphone and is considered a disorder of the modern world. The present study aims to provide additional evidence of the relationship between personality traits and nomophobia. Moreover, this research explores dysfunctional obsessive beliefs as another possible antecedent. Finally, this study also examines the effect of the combination of these antecedents on nomophobia.
The study sample was comprised of Spanish workers (males: 44.54%; females: 55.46%) in the city of Tarragona and its surroundings.
Our results showed that nomophobia is directly related to personality traits such as extraversion, and that dysfunctional obsessive beliefs play a role in the development of nomophobia. Moreover, our study confirms that the combination of personality traits and dysfunctional obsessive beliefs can affect the degree of nomophobia experienced.
Our study contributes to the body of literature that examines how psychological variables of personality can be predictors of nomophobia. Additional research is needed to better understand the determinants of nomophobia.
新技术(ICT)的发展,特别是智能手机的发明,为用户带来了巨大的好处。然而,这项技术的使用有时会出现问题,并可能对人们的生活产生负面影响。无手机恐惧症被定义为害怕无法通过智能手机联系到某人,被认为是现代世界的一种障碍。本研究旨在提供更多证据证明人格特质与无手机恐惧症之间的关系。此外,本研究还探讨了功能失调的强迫观念作为另一个可能的前因。最后,本研究还检验了这些前因组合对无手机恐惧症的影响。
该研究的样本由塔拉戈纳市及其周边地区的西班牙工人(男性:44.54%;女性:55.46%)组成。
我们的结果表明,无手机恐惧症与外向等人格特质直接相关,功能失调的强迫观念在无手机恐惧症的发展中起作用。此外,我们的研究证实,人格特质和功能失调的强迫观念的组合可以影响无手机恐惧症的程度。
我们的研究有助于研究人格心理变量如何成为无手机恐惧症的预测因素的文献。需要进一步的研究来更好地理解无手机恐惧症的决定因素。