Is there a relationship between smartphone addiction and cyber dating abuse among nursing students?
Rabiye Erenoğlu, Esma Elif KILIÇ · 2026
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Erenoğlu and Kılıç ask whether nursing students who cannot put their phones down also experience more abuse inside online dating relationships. Cyber dating abuse covers partners monitoring messages, controlling contacts, and attacking through digital channels. Their 2026 cross-sectional study surveyed 224 nursing students at a state university in southern Turkey, most of them women and nearly all single, using validated addiction and abuse questionnaires.
Every abuse dimension moved with phone addiction, always weakly but always significantly: students scoring higher on addiction reported more monitoring and control by partners, and more direct digital aggression. They also admitted doing more of each themselves. Nearly two thirds of the students said they felt lost without their phones, and a third reported low mood when not using them. The authors argue nurses are well placed to teach young people to spot digital abuse early.
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| CREATOR | Rabiye Erenoğlu, Esma Elif KILIÇ |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |