Nomophobia and the pandemic: a study on the fear of being disconnected in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Boechat, Dayana
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Pereira Neto, André, Barbosa, Leticia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: RECIIS (Online)
• DOI: 10.29397/reciis.v18iAhead-of-Print.3506
• Texto Completo: https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/3506
• topic: Nomophobia; Smartphone; Internet access; Pandemic; Covid-19; Adicción al teléfono celular; Smartphone; Acceso a internet; Pandemia; Covid-19; Nomofobia; Smartphone; Acesso à internet; Pandemia; Covid-19

The Information and Communication Technologies are present in human life. They offer many advantages, but they can also cause problems, among them nomophobia – anguish and fear of becoming incommunicado, without access to a smartphone or internet. To assess the degree of nomophobia, the Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q) was created. The objective of this article was to evaluate to what extent the social isolation proposed as a preventive measure against covid-19 interfered in the indices of nomophobia in Brazil. An adapted version of NMP-Q was applied to young people through digital media during the pandemic. The results indicate social isolation interfered with the increase of nomophobia, especially in women aged 20 to 29 and 50 to 59 years, with university degree or post-graduation and earning 10 to 20 minimum wages. This article is part of a set of international studies that used the NMP-Q to assess the fear of being disconnected.