Psychometric evaluation of the Arabic version of the nomophobia questionnaire: confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis - implications from a pilot study in Kuwait among university students

• Published in: Psychology research and behavior management Vol. 11; pp. 471 - 482
• Main Authors: Al-Balhan, Eisa M, Khabbache, Hicham, Watfa, Ali, Re, Tania Simona, Zerbetto, Riccardo, Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Zealand Dove Medical Press Limited 01.01.2018; Taylor & Francis Ltd; Dove Medical Press
• Subjects: Additives; Analysis; Arabic language; Cellular telephones; College students; confirmatory factor analysis (CFA); exploratory factor analysis (EFA); Fear & phobias; Gender; Health sciences; Hypothesis testing; Interpreters; Mental disorders; Nomophobia; Original Research; psychometric properties; Quantitative psychology; questionnaire; Smartphones; Social networks; Social research; Students; Surveys; Technology; Translations; University students; Wireless telephones; Youth; Saudi Arabia; New York; Italy; Kuwait; United States > US; exploratory factor analysis; Arabic language; confirmatory factor analysis; questionnaire; Nomophobia; psychometric properties

In the past decades, thanks to the widespread use of the new information and communication technologies, nomophobia has emerged as a contemporary psychological disorder. More in detail, it has been defined as the modern fear of feeling disconnected, being out of mobile phone contact, and being unabl...