ASSESSMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHUBBING AND PERSONALITY TYPES AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

ASSESSMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHUBBING AND PERSONALITY TYPES AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Published:2024-04-30 Issue:1 Volume:33 Page:115-128
ISSN:1304-8899
Container-title:Çukurova Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi
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Author:

Şahin Sevil¹^ORCID,Demirhan İlknur²^ORCID,Arıöz Ayten³^ORCID,Ünsal Alaettin⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi

2. AKSARAY UNIVERSITY, AKSARAY VOCATIONAL SCHOOL

3. ANKARA YILDIRIM BEYAZIT UNIVERSITY

4. OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of phubbing among university students, review some variables that are believed to be associated and determine personality types. This cross-sectional study was conducted on all undergraduate students at a university in Ankara during the 2020-2021 spring semester. Data was collected online. It was targeted to reach the target population rather than calculating the sample. The study group consisted of 869 students who agreed to take part in the study. In this study, the Phubbing Scale was used to determine the level of phubbing and the 10-Item Personality Inventory was used to determine personality traits. Analyses were conducted with Chi-squared test and Logistic Regression Analysis. Statistical significance value was accepted as p < 0.05. The study group consisted of 654 (75.3%) female students and 215 (24.7%) male students. Their age ranged from 18 to 44 with a mean age of 21.37 ± 2.97 years. The prevalence of phubbing was found to be 7.9% in this study. Important risk factors for phubbing are being a woman, having an extended family, having an average duration of daily smartphone use of 6 hours and more and agreeableness personality trait. The most commonly used social media apps by the students were WhatsApp (29.6%), Instagram (25.9%) and YouTube (23.6%).In conclusion, more comprehensive studies are needed to reveal the relationship between personality types and sociotelism.

Publisher

Cukurova Universitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitusu Dergisi

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