![]() ![]() In the past decades, thanks to the widespread use of the new information and communication technologies (ICTs), nomophobia has emerged as a contemporary psychological disorder. Keywords: Nomophobia, questionnaire, psychometric properties, Arabic language, confirmatory factor analysis, exploratory factor analysis Approximately a quarter of the recruited sample (132 subjects, 25.8%) had severe nomophobia level. However, the coefficient increased from 0.645 to 0.849 with respect to the original factor structure. Overall Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.879. The exploratory factor analysis showed that four factors had 57.24% variance. Results: The confirmatory factor analysis did not show a completely satisfactory fitting with the original factor structure. A total of 512 subjects (aged 21.62±4.33 years, median 20 years), equally distributed between males and females, and based in Kuwait, volunteered to take part in the study. Materials and methods: Our research objective was to develop and validate the Arabic version, administering it to a sample of adolescents and young adults in a country characterized by a high mobile network coverage. Few authors have used an Arabic version of the Nomophobia Questionnaire, even though its psychometric properties are not well known and have been poorly investigated from a formal rigorous standpoint. More in detail, it has been defined as the modern fear of feeling disconnected, being out of mobile phone contact, and being unable to access information and/or communicate with others. ![]() ![]() Eisa M Al-Balhan, 1 Hicham Khabbache, 2 Ali Watfa, 3 Tania Simona Re, 4 Riccardo Zerbetto, 5 Nicola Luigi Bragazzi 4,6ġDepartment of Educational Psychology, College of Education, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait 2Faculty of Literature and Humanistic Studies, Sais, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco 3Faculty of Education, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait 4UNESCO Chair “Health Anthropology Biosphere and Healing Systems”, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy 5GESTALT Study Center (CSTG), Milano, Italy 6Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), Postgraduate School of Public Health, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italyīackground: In the past decades, thanks to the widespread use of the new information and communication technologies, nomophobia has emerged as a contemporary psychological disorder. ![]()
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