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Developing Fırat Nomophobia Scale and investigating its psychometric properties
Yalçın Kanbay1, Aysun Akçam2, Sevil Çınar Özbay3
1Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Artvin Coruh University, Artvin, Turkey.
Objective:
We analyzed the nomophobia concept to develop the "Fırat Nomophobia Scale" to determine the level of nomophobia in individuals aged 15-65 years.
Design And Measures:
A linguistically and psychometrically validated trial form consisting of 13 statements was applied to a sample of 678 individuals (69% women).
Results:
The "Nomophobia Scale" that we developed consisted of a single dimension and eight items, explicating 55.9% of the variance concerning nomophobia.
Conclusions:
Our findings suggest that the Fırat Nomophobia Scale is an economical scale with a low number of items and high variance. In addition, it provides valid and reliable measurements.
Practice Implications:
The present study signifies the importance of research on nomophobia and determining the risk groups and protection strategies.
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