Do Age, Gender and Poor Diet Influence the Higher Prevalence of Nomophobia among Young People? Moreno Guerrero, Antonio José Aznar Díaz, Inmaculada Cáceres Reche, María Del Pilar Rodríguez García, Antonio Manuel Nomophobia Smartphone Addictions Teenagers Youth Eating habits We acknowledge the researchers of the research group AREA (HUM-672), which belongs to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Junta de Andalucía and is registered in the Department of Didactics and School Organization of the Faculty of Education Sciences of the University of Granada. The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is generating the emergence of new pathologies such as nomophobia. The aim of this research was to analyze the prevalence of nomophobia among young people, as well as to check whether the level of nomophobia is higher in males or females and in those students who claim to have less healthy nutrition due to the use of their mobile phones. The research method was based on a correlational and predictive design with a quantitative methodology. The measurement tool used is the Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q). The participating sample was 1743 students between 12 and 20 years old from different educational stages of the Autonomous City of Ceuta (Spain). The results show that highest rates of nomophobia were found in relation to the inability to communicate and contact others immediately. About gender, women have higher rates of nomophobia than men. In relation to age, no significant differences were found; thus, the problem may affect all ages equally. Finally, students who think that their smartphone use is detrimental to their good nutrition show higher levels on the scale provided. 2020-07-27T11:47:47Z 2020-07-27T11:47:47Z 2020-05 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Moreno-Guerrero, A. J., Aznar-Díaz, I., Cáceres-Reche, P., & Rodríguez-García, A. M. (2020). Do Age, Gender and Poor Diet Influence the Higher Prevalence of Nomophobia among Young People?. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(10), 3697. [DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17103697] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/63152 10.3390/ijerph17103697 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España MDPI