The association between nomophobia and loneliness among the general population in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 3 Correlation matrix of the loneliness score, the nomophobia score and its factors, age in years, education level, income level, and duration of daily mobile Internet use

Variable	Loneliness score		Nomophobia score
Variable	r	p	r	p
Loneliness score	1	.
Nomophobia score	.567**	0.0001
Unable to communicate score	.445**	0.0001
Loss off connectedness score	.573**	0.0001
Unable to access information score	.626**	0.0001
Giving up convenience score	.461**	0.0001
Age in years	− 0.214 **	0.0001	− 0.103 *	0.018
Education level	− 0.142 **	0.001	0.075	0.087
Income level	0.053	0.221	− .207**	0.0001
Length of everyday mobile Internet usage	.402**	0.0001	.254**	00.0001

Correlative index (r) Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed) for * and the 0.01 level for **. (2-tailed)