KECENDERUNGAN NOMOPHBIA PADA MAHASISWA

Nomophobia is a modern fear of communicating via smartphone and refers to behaviours that associated with the use of smartphone. The habit of students accessing the internet from their smartphones is marked by always carrying a charger to be able to communicate with people for 24 hours. By applying the descriptive- quantitative approach, which is to describe systematically and accurately the facts and characteristics regarding a particular population or field, this study aimed to observe the tendency of Nomophobia in students at the University of Muhammadiyah Malang. The research subjects were 948 students using proportionate stratified random sampling technique. The instrument of this study used the Nomophobia Questionnaire scale (NMP-Q). Overall the highest Nomophobia tendency was found with a percentage of 50% and the lowest at 50%. However, if observed from each faculty, there was a low tendency for Nomophobia in students, stood at 76%