Nomophobia Among Hostel Students

Smart phones today have become an essential part of our techno-culture, especially among the younger population. Discomfort, anxiety, nervousness or anguish caused by being out of contact with a mobile phone is termed as “Nomophobia”- no mobile phobia. Nomophobia is on the rise across the globe. Specially, after the pandemic of Covid-19 lockdowns. This study aims to assess the prevalence of Nomophobia among the students staying in hostels of SDM College, Ujire. A cross-sectional study was carried out in 30 students. A pre-designed and pre-tested questionnaire was used to get information. Data analyzed by using Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS). T-test was applied to test the levels of significance of nomophobia among Males and females. The results obtained value of 1.009 which is not significant. This shows there is no significant difference between level of Nomophobia between male and female young adults.