journal of sustainable studies joss
Nomophobia and its relationship with Internal and External Locus of control among University of Baghdad students
Iman Hasan Jadaan, University of Baghdad, College of Education for Human Sciences, Ibn
Abstract:
Nomophobia is considered a modern age phobia introduced to our lives as a side effect of the interactivity between people and mobile information and other communication technologies, The immersion of young people in mobile phones may make them lose control, whether external or internal, in their daily activities, as the scale (Walsh et al., 2010) was adopted to measure Nomophobia and the adoption of the scale (Rotter, 1966) to measure the internal and external control, Two hundred undergraduate students were recruited and completed a questionnaire to measure Nomophobia and Locus of control as a Results College students have moderate level of Nomophobia as well as have an External locus of control and there is a reverse relationship between Nomophobia and internal locus of control and the relationship between Nomophobia and external locus of control is a extreme correlation.
Keywords— : Nomophobia, Locus of control, Internal locus of control, External locus of control.