Smartphone addictions and nomophobia among youth

ABSTRACT Nomophobia is a form of behavioral addiction towards smartphone referring to the anxiety caused by disconnected from the mobile network or inability to have access to a smartphone. Nomophobia has multi-dimensional traits ranging from social, physiological, and physical symptoms that are summarized into very dependency upon smartphone. The study examines nomophobia among youth and how to overcome nomophobia. The study deployed a qualitative approach by interviewing respondents mostly at their first-year undergraduate level and text mining analytics from respondents’ conversation to extract the common patterns, characteristics, and proposed solutions for nomophobia.