Relationship between nomophobia, home chaos and phubbing among university students

Abstract

The present research was aimed to investigate relationship between nomophobia, home chaos and phubbing among univers ity students. Purposive, sampling technique was used to collect data from university students (N= 367) of twin cities of Rawalpindi/Is lamabad. The age of partic ipants ranged between 19 years to 30 years. Nomophobia Questionnaire, (Yildirim, 201 4), Home Chaos, (Ludwig, Matheny, Phill ips, & Wachs, 1995) and Interpersonal Conflict subscale from Generic Scale of Phubbing, (Chotpitayasunondh & Doug las, 2018) were lIsed to measure nomophobia, home chaos and phubbing respectively. This study was conducted in two phases. Phase I was tryout phase in which 10 univers ity students were taken to judge understanding of the instruments for univers ity students. Phase II consist of main study. Results indicated that nomophobia and home chaos positively predicted phubbing (*p<.OO 1, *p<.O I ). There were no s ignificant gender except for home chaos p<.05, p<.O I . Users of smartphone under different context (at dinner table, between classes, during classes, and while being alone, having fun with friends, and while walking, driving, watchi ng TV, waiting) scored higher on nomophobia, phubbing home choas as compared to non-users p<.05, p<.O 1. Users of smaltphones for vario lls purposes (purpose of email, social media, information, schedule meetings and events, lecture notes, fri ends and family, games and music) on nomophobia, phubbing and home chaos as compared to non-users p<.05, p<.O I. Limitations and implications of the current study as well as suggestions for fu ture studies were also discussed