Mobile phone use and its threat to dependence among secondary school students – an explanatory study

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14410%2F23%3A00131241" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14410/23:00131241 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.aaem.pl/pdf-162402-89325?filename=Mobile%20phone%20use%20and%20its.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.aaem.pl/pdf-162402-89325?filename=Mobile%20phone%20use%20and%20its.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.26444/aaem/162402" target="_blank" >10.26444/aaem/162402</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mobile phone use and its threat to dependence among secondary school students – an explanatory study

Original language description

Nomophobia (NMP) is a present-age phobia of loss of use of information and communication technologies (ICT), particularly smartphones. The study adopted a two-phase, exploratory consequential mixed methods design. The first phase was a quantitative exploration of the degree of NMP. The second mapped the potential area of risks in using modern ICT. Three working hypotheses were established to compare the opinions of secondary school students, their behaviour and degree of NMP. A 20-item anonymous questionnaire was administered to 373 boys and girls aged 14–15 in 11 randomly-selected secondary schools in the Czech Republic. The results prove that 0.5% of the subjects did not exhibit symptoms of NMP, a very mild form of NMP was detected in 71% of respondents, a mild form of NMP was detected in 18.7% of the respondents, a moderate form of NMP was detected in 7.8% of respondents, and a severe form of NMP was detected in 2% of respondents. Almost three-quarters of the students were not directly at risk of dependence on a mobile phone, but a 10th of the sample exhibited a set of symptoms of behavioural addiction. On average, respondents used 4 applications, communication programmes, social networks, and music players. Girls reported a higher dependence on mobile phones in comparison to boys. Further investigations should directly ascertain which integrands predict NMP, identifying risk groups, and developing preventive strategies (social and environmental factors) to better understand the underlying cause of NMP.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50302 - Education, special (to gifted persons, those with learning disabilities)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

ANNALS OF AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE

ISSN

1232-1966

e-ISSN

1898-2263

Volume of the periodical

30

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

306-314

UT code for WoS article

001030521000014

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85163848386