PREVALENCE OF NOMOPHOBIA AND CYBERLOAFING BEHAVIORS AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Authors

  • Thouqan Saleem Yakoub Masadeh Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, Najran University, Saudi Arabia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejes.v8i2.3580

Keywords:

nomophobia, cyberloafing, smartphone use, university undergraduates, Najran University

Abstract

The main aim of this study was to investigate the levels of nomophobia and cyberloafing among undergraduate students. Participants were 65 undergraduates from the department of English at Najran University. Nomophobia questionnaire (NMP-Q) and the cyberloafing scale were used as main instruments for data collection. The descriptive, inferential and analytical approach was used. Results indicated that undergraduate students had moderate levels of nomophobia and their practice levels of cyberloafing behaviors were somehow high. The most prominent factors that were affecting their nomophobia levels were their inability to keep in touch with their families and friends, anxiety if their families could not contact them once their smartphones are not ready to use, desire to keep checking their smartphones if they could not check them for a while, and battery run out in their smartphones. In accordance with cyberloafing, results showed that posting status updates on social networks, chatting with friends, reading tweets, retweeting the tweets they like, downloading needed applications, and watching videos online were the behaviors that were mostly practiced by the majority of undergraduates.

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Author Biography

  • Thouqan Saleem Yakoub Masadeh, Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, Najran University, Saudi Arabia
    Dr. Thouqan Saleem Yakoub Masadeh is an Associate Professor of English language Curriculum and Instruction at the department of Curriculum and Instruction at Najran University, Saudi Arabia. His main research interests are TESL, TEFL, ESP, Curriculum design, Teaching Strategies, Teacher Preparation, Technology in Education and any interesting topic in the field of education and mainly teaching English as a foreign language.

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2021-02-14

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