الخوف من الضياع و علاقته برهاب فقدان الهاتف المحمول (النوموفوبيا)‎ لدى المراهقين المغتربين

Abstract EN

The study aimed to identify the nature of the correlation relationship between Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) and No Mobile Phobia (Nomophobia) among expatriate adolescents, explore the gender differences in both FOMO and Nomophobia, verify the relative contribution of FOMO to predict with Nomophobia among sample of the study.

The sample of the study consisted of (584) expatriate adolescents in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (352 males, 232 females) whose ages ranged between (15-17) years, and the study used FOMOscale (Prepared by: Przybylski et al.

, 2013, translated by the current researchers), and Nomophobia scale (prepared by the current researchers).

The study reached the following results: there was a positive significant statistical correlation relationship between FOMO and Nomophobia among expatriate adolescents, there were no significant statistical differences between males and females in FOMO, there were significant statistical differences between males and females in Nomophobia for females, and the contribution of FOMO to predict Nomophobia among expatriate adolescents.

The results of the study were discussed in light of literature and previous studies.