A multi-group analysis of the effects of individual differences in mindfulness on nomophobia

Date

2019-03-01

Author

Arpaci, Ibrahim
Baloğlu, Mustafa
Kesici, Şahin

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

27
views

0
downloads

This study aimed to investigate the impact of individual differences in mindfulness on nomophobia. We developed and validated two structural models to identify the relationship between mindfulness and nomophobia. The 'Nomophobia Questionnaire' and the 'Mindful Attention Awareness Scale' were used to obtain data from the subjects. One-way MANOVA results suggested a statistically significant difference in nomophobia based on higher versus lower mindfulness. Further, a multi-group analysis was conducted to test the hypothesized relationships in the structural models for men and women. The results revealed that mindfulness had a significant negative correlation with nomophobia for both men and women. As scores in mindfulness increased, subjects exhibited less nomophobic tendencies. Further, those subjects who had lower scores in mindfulness showed higher anxiety when they were unable to communicate. However, subjects who scored higher in mindfulness showed lower anxiety when they could not access desired information. Independent sample t-test results were variant across men and women in nomophobia. Based on the findings we conclude that mindfulness based treatments can be beneficial in dealing with nomophobia for women.

Subject Keywords

Mindfulness, Nomophobia, Individual differences, Gender differences, Multi-group analysis

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47406

Journal

Information Development

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1177/0266666917745350

Collections

Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

A Pathway Towards Subjective Well-Being for Turkish University Students: The Roles of Dispositional Hope, Cognitive Flexibility, and Coping Strategies Muyan-Yilik, Mine; Demir, Ayhan Gürbüz (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-08-01) The aim of the current study was to test a model that consisted of dispositional hope, cognitive flexibility, and coping strategies (avoidance, problem-focused coping, and seeking social support) towards subjective well-being of university students. The sample of the study included 1222 undergraduate students (601 females and 621 males) from a public university in Ankara, Turkey. In order to collect data, Dispositional Hope Scale, Cognitive Flexibility Inventory, Coping with Stress Scale, Positive and Negat...
Direct and indirect effects of social support on psychological well-being Gençöz, Tülin (Scientific Journal Publishers Ltd, 2004-01-01) The aim of this study was to investigate the direct and indirect effects of social support on psychological well-being. Social support was evaluated under two different categories which were named as Aid-Related and Appreciation-Related Social Support. The first category was more related to potential for receiving help from others when needed, and being cared for by others, while the latter category was more related to being recognized by others as an efficient source of help and reassurance of worth. Under...
A descriptive study of individual and cross-cultural differences in statistics anxiety Baloglu, Mustafa; Baloğlu, Mustafa; Kesici, Sahin (2011-08-01) The present study investigated individual and cross-cultural differences in statistics anxiety among 223 Turkish and 237 American college students. A 2 x 2 between-subjects factorial multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) was performed on the six dependent variables which are the six subscales of the Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale. Independent variables were country and gender. Grade Point Average (GPA) and age were entered as covariates. Results showed that GPA and age had significant covariate ef...
The Role of emotions and emotion regulation in the system justification process Solak, Nevin; Sümer, Nebi; Jost, John T.; Department of Psychology (2015) The studies of emotions and emotion regulation from the social psychological perspective have been dominated by two general approaches, namely, individual and group-based research perspectives (e.g., Frijda, 1986; Gross, 2014; Halperin, 2014; Smith, Seger, & Mackie, 2007). Considering that emotions cannot only be limited to the individual- and the group-level contexts, the system-level dynamics (Stangor & Jost, 1997) should be examined to better understand their impacts on both individual and society. Drawi...
The Contribution of self-control, emotion regulation, rumination, and gender to test anxiety of university students Irkörücü, Ayşe; Demir, Ayhan Gürbüz; Department of Educational Sciences (2012) The aim of the study is to investigate the relation between attachment style, early maladaptive schemas and attitude towards help seeking. Participants of this study were composed from 572 university students (264 female, 308 male). Participants were selected by convenient sampling method. The data was obtained by using the scale of Attitudes toward Seeking Psychological Help - Shortened (Türküm, 2001), Relationship Questionnaire (Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991), Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form (Young &...

Citation Formats

I. Arpaci, M. Baloğlu, and Ş. Kesici, “A multi-group analysis of the effects of individual differences in mindfulness on nomophobia,” Information Development, pp. 333–341, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47406.