International Science Community Association International Research Journal of Social Sciences 2319 10 1 2021 01 14 Determination of the prevalence of phubbing and its possible relations with personality characteristics and with the other factors among the students of the faculty of medicine from western Turkey 20 27 EN Dutta Pryanka 1 Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh Dutta Urme 2 Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Sana Tanmoy 3 Global Centre for Environmental Remediation, The University of Newcastle, Australia Mondal Uzzwal Kumar 4 Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh Baba Ibrahim 1 Department of Public Administration, Mai Idris Alooma Polytechnic Geidam, Yobe State, Nigeria Adamu Ibrahim Ghide 2 Department of Social Development, Mai Idris Alooma Polytechnic Geidam, Yobe State, Nigeria Patimo Donald M. 1 Northwest Samar State University, Philippines Amor Ghilson B. 2 Northwest Samar State University, Philippines Casiracan Mia Cheryl E. 3 Northwest Samar State University, Philippines AYGAR Hatice 1 Department of Public Health, Medical Faculty, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Izmir, Turkey TOZUN Mustafa 2 Department of Public Health, Medical Faculty, Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey UNSAL Alaettin 3 Department of Public Health, Medical Faculty, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Izmir, Turkey ARSLANTAS Didem 4 Department of Public Health, Medical Faculty, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Izmir, Turkey OKTAR Didem 5 Department of Public Health, Medical Faculty, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Izmir, Turkey DAGTEKIN Gokce 6 Department of Public Health, Medical Faculty, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Izmir, Turkey > Research Paper 2020 6 10 2021 01 14 Phubbing is defined that an individuals attention to the smartphone while he / she is in communication with another individual. Phubber is interested in the smartphone and he misses his perception from interpersonal communication. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of phubbing and its possible relations with personality structure and with the other factors among the students of the faculty of medicine. This cross-sectional study was conducted from 02 January to 28 February 2019 among a medical faculty students in western Turkey. Target medical students were 1544 and 1216 (78.7%) students agreed to participate in the study. Phubbing level was evaluated with the Phubbing Scale. Personality traits were evaluated with the Ten-Item Personality Scale. Chi-square test and Logistic Regression Analysis (Backward Wald) were used to analyze the data. P& Copyright@ International Science Community Association 8804;0.05 was accepted as the statistical significance value. In the study 615 (50.6%) of the study group was female and 601 (49.4%) was male. Ages ranged between from 17 to 28 and the mean was 21.40 ± 2.05 years. The prevalence of phubbing was 12.7% (n = 154). The risk factors for phubbing are smoking (OR: 1.548) sleeping time of 9 hours or more (OR: 1.824) daily smartphone usage time of 5 hours and above (OR: 3.447) seeing the place of the smartphone as indispensable (OR: 5.284) and not doing regular physical exercise (OR: 1.537). No relationship has been shown between the personality structure and phubbing (p>0.05). According the studys results we can say that phubbing is one of the most common health problem among the medical students. In order to reduce the frequency of phubbing it will be useful to inform students parents and teachers about negative results of use of smart phones out of purpose.