Comparative study of athletes with high and low nomophobia toward archery accuracy

Abstract

Lack of self-control in using smartphones can lead to nomophobia. This study aimed to determine the effect of nomophobia on the accuracy of archery athletes in the Banyumas Regency. This study is comparative descriptive research with 30 Banyumas archery athletes as the population selected using the total sampling technique. Furthermore, the 30 archery athletes were categorized as having high and low nomophobia. The instrument used to measure the level of nomophobia was a questionnaire. In contrast, the archery accuracy used a 40-meter-archery test for one series, six ends, and 36 arrows. The collected data were tested for normality using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov technique and the homogeneity test using the Levene statistical technique at a significant level of 5% (p > 0.05). Meanwhile, the hypothesis analysis applied a 5% significance t-test. The results showed that there was a significant influence of nomophobia on the accuracy of archery athletes in the Banyumas Regency, where the archery ability of low nomophobia archery athletes was better than high nomophobia athletes with a difference of 20.33.