Construction and Standardisation of Nomophobic Rating Scale for Higher Secondary School Students

Abstract

Usage of mobile phones has increased among the adolescents in the context of the lock down due to Covid-19. The usage of mobile phones for entertainment as well as educational purposes makes them more addicted to gadgets. In this scenario, sufficient studies on Nomophobia, that is fear towards the situation when there is no phone, has increased. Investigators developed and standardised a Nomophobia rating scale to identify the addiction rate of Higher Secondary school students to mobile phones. NPRS is a five point Likert type scale consisting of 24 items. Reliability of the scale has been established using split-half method and Cronbach alpha test. Content validity by experts and Spear-son correlation method were established for the rating scale.