Abstract
The objective of the article is to know the reasons and characteristics of nomophobia
in university students. Scielo, Redalyc, ProQuest, Google Scholar, Mendeley and
EBSCO are consulted. Articles by year and languages are filtered in a methodical,
sequenced and ordered way. It is found that there is an increase in the use of the cell
phone in young university students, access the internet through the cell phone, seek
to be connected, is socially isolated, present psychological and behavioral features
associated with nomophobia. It is concluded that the young university student uses
the cell phone as a tool for communication, chat, and online games, presenting high
statistics on its use.