A Correlation Study Between Alexithymia, Nomophobia and Emotion Regulation Among Young Adults

Abstract

The study objects to examine whether the is a correlation between Alexithymia, Nomophobia, and Emotion regulation among young adults. The study was carried forward on young adults between age bracket of 18-25, from various college students from Pune. The sample size comprised of 72 male and 133 female young adults. The data was collected using the personal data sheet (PDS), Digital well-being interface, the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire – Short form (PAQ-S) Preece et al. (2023), the Nomophobia Questionnaire Yildirim & Correia (2015), and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire – Short form (Preece et al., 2021) based on the original scale Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Gross & John 2003). The data derived from the study was analyzed using SPPS and the Shapiro-Wilk test of normality suggested that the data is not normally distributed, thus non-parametric test were used. The outcome of the study underscores that there is significant positive correlation between Alexithymia and Nomophobia in Young adults (.404**, p<0.01). Furthermore, a no significant correlation was found between Nomophobia and Cognitive reappraisal in young adults. A significant positive correlation was found between Nomophobia and Expressive Suppression (0.189**, p<0.01), Alexithymia and Cognitive Reappraisal (.165*, p<0.05), and Alexithymia and Expressive suppression (.471**, p<0.01) in young adults.