“…Based on the findings obtained from this study, it can be said that preservice teachers have generally negative connotations on the concept of nomophobia and nomophobic behaviors are observed in preservice teachers. A number of studies yielded that the majority of university students have moderate or higher nomophobia levels (Adnan & Gezgin, 2016;Erdem, Kalkın, Türen & Deniz, 2016;Yılmaz, Köse & Doğru, 2018;Apak & Yaman, 2019;Atilgan, 2020;Gürol, Apay, Özdemir, Uslu & Güven 2020;Ramazanoğlu, 2020;İdil, Çakır & Akman, 2022;Masalimova, Khairullina, Lapidus, Orekhovskaya, Zheltukhina & Baranova, 2022;Özsavran & Kuzlu Ayyıldız, 2022;Üstündağ Öcal & Öztürk, 2022), nomophobia prevalence is higher in women (Erdem, Türen & Kalkın, 2017;Gezgin, Şahin & Yıldırım, 2017;Yılmaz, Köse & Doğru, 2018;Karakuyu & Ata, 2019;Pekin, Yırtıcı & Olgun, 2021;Avcı, 2022;Gökbulut, 2022;S. Karabatak, Ay & Karabatak, 2022) and according to a study conducted with only male university students, 28.6% of male university students are mildly, 57.3% are moderately and 14.1% are severely nomophobic (Özalp, Kurnaz, Güler, İnamlık, Berkmen, Ömer & Hayran, 2021).…”