Name: Nitesh Kumar Jha & Priya
Country: India

Year: 2025
Volume: Volume-15, Issue-1 (Jan-June)
Page Number: 224-234
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16875026

ABSTRACT
Background: Personality and self-esteem play a vital role in determining person’s thoughts
and behaviour. Both of these factors greatly influence health and wellbeing of the individual.
Individuals with nomophobia suffer from a psychological condition where they fear losing
their connection to their mobile phones. Research suggests that this fear is so intense that it
doesn’t allow people to turn off their phone even when they don’t use it. The purpose of the
current study was to investigate the relationship between university students' nomophobia and
their personalities and self-esteem. Methods: Data was collected from 160 university
students from which there were 97 females and 63 males ranging from 18 to 25 years of age
which were selected through convenient sampling technique. The study utilized three tools
including Nomophobia Questionnaire (Yildrim and Correia, 2015), NEO Five-Factor
Inventory (Costa and McCrea, 1992) and Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale (Rosenberg