الملخص الإنجليزي
The current study aimed to verify the effectiveness of a group counseling program
based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in reducing the level of
nomophobia among ninth-grade female students in Muscat Governorate. To reach the
objectives of the study, the interactive electronic nomophobia scale and the group
counseling program based on acceptance and commitment therapy were used. The
program consisted of twelve counseling sessions. The study followed the experimental
approach with control and experimental groups, with pre- and post-test and a followup test. The study sample consisted of 30 female students, distributed equally into two
control and experimental groups. The results of the study indicated that there were
statistically significant differences between the averages of the pre- and post-test of
the experimental group on the nomophobia scale in favor of the post-test. There were
also statistically significant differences between the averages of the post-test of the
experimental and control groups on the nomophobia scale in favor of the experimental
group. The results also showed the continued effectiveness of the group counseling
program. The treatment based on acceptance and commitment reduced the level of
nomophobia among female students in the experimental group, and the positive effect
of the program remained even a month after its completion.
