The Relationship between Smartphone Addiction Behaviors and Mental Health Problems among Nursing Students at Praboromarajchanok Institute
Keywords:
Smartphone Addiction, Stress, Depression, NomophobiaAbstract
This correlational research aimed to 1) make an assessment of smartphone addiction behaviors among nursing students, and 2) study the relationships between those smartphone addiction behaviors and stress, depression, and nomophobia (short term for "no mobile phobia") among nursing students from the nursing colleges under the jurisdiction of Praboromarajchanok Institute. The study was performed on nursing students who enrolled during the academic year 2020. The 442 nursing students participated in being selected by cluster sampling. The instruments consisted of 1) a demographic questionnaire, 2) the Thai Smartphone Addiction Scale Questionnaire (short version), 3) the Stress test Questionnaire (ST5), 4) a Thai version of The Patient Health Questionnaire for Adolescents (PHQ-A), and 5) a nomophobia questionnaire, yielding Cronbach alpha coefficients of .89, .83, .88, and .96, respectively. The frequency, percentile, mean, standard deviation, and Pearson’s correlation coefficient were all used for analyzing the data.
Results revealed that 21.72 % of nursing students had smartphone addiction. Smartphone addiction was significantly related to stress depression and nomophobia at p < .01. Therefore, nursing instructors should encourage nursing students to use smartphones correctly.
Moreover, the intervention should be created for nursing students who face smartphone addiction or psychological problems.
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