The Relationship Between Nomophobia and Poorer Sleep Among College Students

Abstract

As time goes by and communication technology is increasingly developing, there is an adverse effects if it is used inappropriately. Nomophobia is one of the psychological problems associated with the exclusive use or mobile phones so that they feel fear and anxiety when they are far from mobile phones. Then the definition of poorer sleep according to the International Classification of Sleep Disorders is a limited sleep pattern that has least three months for most days of the week along with complaints of daytime sleepiness. This study aims to examine the relationship between nomophobia and poorer sleep in college students. This study involved 292 college students from university in Indonesia consisting of 229 female participants and 63 male participants. The measuring instrument used in the Nomophobia Questionnaire by Yildirim & Correia in 2015 and The Pittsburgh Quality of Sleep by The result of the data analysis of participants used the Spearman Correlation technique between nomophobia and poorer sleep, obtaining r (292) = 0.145 and p-value = 0.013. The correlation between these two variables shows that there is a positive and significant correlation between nomophobia and poorer sleep.