CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This research examined the degrees of nomophobia and loneliness among university
students in relation to gender, grade level, faculty, community where participants
spent the most of their lives, and academic accomplishment. 543 undergraduate
students from Erciyes University, 228 of whom are men and 315 of whom are
women, were involved in the study. The study group was chosen using two-stage
random sampling and the Personal Information Form, Nomophobia Scale, and UCLA
Loneliness Scale-III were used to collect the data. The following procedures were
carried out: descriptive statistics, t test for independent samples, one-way analysis of
variance, and Pearson correlation analysis. The researcher's analysis of the
participants' degrees of loneliness and nomophobia revealed that the female
participants had higher levels of nomophobia than the male participants.

Nomophobia levels were found to be greater at the faculty of communication than at

the faculties of law and veterinary medicine, and students at Erciyes University were
more lonely than those at the College of Veterinary Medicine. More research is
needed before making any conclusions. (316 Elebi, M.; Metin, A.; Cencedere, F.;
Aygün, N.; and Bedir, M. Zbulut, 2020).