Relationship Between loneliness and Nomophobia ith the Intermediating Role of Spiritual Well-Being among Students of Alzahra University

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1 psychology, alzahra university, tehran, iran

2 Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between loneliness and nomophobia with the intermediating role of the aspects of spiritual well-being. This research is a descriptive one of correlation and path analysis test. The research population includes all the girl university students of AlZahra University living in the dormitory during the academic year 2016-2017 who were about 1100 people. Sampling method was random sampling and the sample size was selected as 300 people by using Morgan-Krejcie table. Data collection tools included Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q), Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults (SELSA-S), and Spiritual Well Being Questionnaire (SWB). Path analysis test was used for analyzing the data. The results of data analyses showed that spiritual well-being plays an intermediating role between loneliness and nomophobia. Also, the changes of the variance of the scores of nomophobia among the girl students can be explained by the variable of loneliness and the intermediating role of spiritual well-being. Therefore, planning for promotion of spiritual well-being among the students can play an important role in decreasing nomophobia by decreasing their loneliness.

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