Association between nomophobia and indicators of intelligence in students of higher education
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Abstract
Introduction: the indiscriminate use of mobile phones may be associated with equally negative events such as insomnia, depression, stress or chronic tendonitis. The identification of emotional risk factors for the development of nomophobia is important in order to prioritize preventive intervention strategies in adolescents, who by the way are increasingly joining the group of people addicted to cell phones or as defined in this study, with nomophobia.
Objective: this study has the objective of determinate if there are any correlationship between the presence of nomophobia and intelligence indicators including a) Cognitive intelligence measured by IQ, b) Resilience & c) Self-esteem.
Methods: this study have an observational, analytic, transversal, prospective design of case-control study paired by age and sex. The sample was composed of 70 cases and 70 controls, with an average age of 22 (SD = 1.5 years), being 60% males and 40% females.
Results: in the group of people with average or below average IQ, the development of nomophobia was 27 times more probable compared to the non-nomophobic group. When performing this exercise with low self-esteem was identified an OR of 58 and with average or low resilience the OR is 2.2 (both with 95% statistically significant IC).
Conclusion: there is an association between the presence of nomophobia and indicators of cognitive and emotional intelligence.
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