Temperament and characteristics related to nomophobia

• Published in: Psychiatry research Vol. 266; pp. 5 - 10
• Main Authors: Olivencia-Carrión, Maria Angustias, Ferri-García, Ramón, Rueda, María del Mar, Jiménez-Torres, Manuel Gabriel, López-Torrecillas, Francisca
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ireland Elsevier B.V 01.08.2018
• Subjects: Behavior, Addictive - psychology; Cell Phone; Character; Cooperation; Ethnic Groups - psychology; Fear; Female; Humans; Male; Nomophobia; Personality; Personality Inventory; Phobic Disorders - psychology; Reward dependence; Spain; Surveys and Questionnaires; Temperament; Young Adult; Spain; Reward dependence; Nomophobia; Character; Temperament; Cooperation
• ISSN: 0165-1781; 1872-7123
• DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2018.04.056

•This study examines the relationship between temperament and personality and the nomophobic using Questionnaire to Assess Nomophobia (QANP; Rueda et al., 2017) and Temperament and Character Inventory Revised (TCI-R; Cloninger et al., 1993).•Cooperation is a characteristic that significantly reduces nomophobic levels.•Reward dependence is positively related to nomophobia. Nomophobia is defined as the fear of being out of mobile phone contact and is considered to be a phobia of the modern age. The current study set out to establish the relationship between temperament and personality and the development of nomophobia. The sample was composed of 968 participants selected from the Andalusian population, of which there were 182 males and 785 females aged from 23.19 years. The instruments used were the Questionnaire to Assess Nomophobia (QANIP; Olivencia-Carrión et al., 2018) and the Temperament and Character Inventory Revised (TCI-R; Cloninger et al., 1993). We found that cooperation is a characteristic that significantly reduces nomophobic levels, particularly for the two factors of Mobile Phone Addiction and Negative Consequences. Furthermore, Reward Dependence appears to be positively related to two of the factors involved in nomophobia, namely Mobile Phone Addiction and Loss of Control, suggesting a relationship between Nomophobia and personality. These findings are discussed in terms of their usefulness for identifying the personality predictors of nomophobia in order to develop preventive and intervention strategies.