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- ItemTemperament and characteristics related to nomophobia.(0000-00-00) Olivencia-Carrión, Maria Angustias; Ferri-García, Ramón; Rueda, María Del Mar; Jiménez-Torres, Manuel Gabriel; López-Torrecillas, FranciscaNomophobia is defined as the fear of being out of mobile phone contact and is considered to be a phobia of the modern age The current study set out to establish the relationship between temperament and personality and the development of nomophobia The sample was composed of 968 participants selected from the Andalusian population of which there were 182 males and 785 females aged from 23 19 years The instruments used were the Questionnaire to Assess Nomophobia QANIP Olivencia Carri n et al 2018 and the Temperament and Character Inventory Revised TCI R Cloninger et al 1993 We found that cooperation is a characteristic that significantly reduces nomophobic levels particularly for the two factors of Mobile Phone Addiction and Negative Consequences Furthermore Reward Dependence appears to be positively related to two of the factors involved in nomophobia namely Mobile Phone Addiction and Loss of Control suggesting a relationship between Nomophobia and personality These findings are discussed in terms of their usefulness for identifying the personality predictors of nomophobia in order to develop preventive and intervention strategies
- ItemValidation of a Spanish Questionnaire on Mobile Phone Abuse.(0000-00-00) Olivencia-Carrión, María A; Ramírez-Uclés, Isabel; Holgado-Tello, Pablo; López-Torrecillas, FranciscaMobile phone addiction has attracted much attention recently and is showing similarity to other substance use disorders Because no studies on mobile phone addiction had yet been conducted in Spain we developed and validated a questionnaire Cuestionario de Abuso del Tel fono M vil ATeMo to measure mobile phone abuse among young adults in Spanish The ATeMo questionnaire was designed based on relevant DSM 5 diagnostic criteria and included craving as a diagnostic symptom Using stratified sampling the ATeMo questionnaire was administered to 856 students mean age 21 62 women The MULTICAGE questionnaire was administered to assess history of drug abuse and addiction Using confirmatory factor analysis we found evidence for the construct validity of the following factors Craving Loss of Control Negative Life Consequences and Withdrawal Syndrome and their association with a second order factor related to mobile phone abuse The four ATeMO factors were also associated with alcoholism internet use and compulsive buying Important gender differences were found that should be considered when studying mobile phone addictions The ATeMo is a valid and reliable instrument that can be used in further research on mobile phone abuse