More and more people suffer from nomophobia - the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. It is at least the finding of a recent study for a British company SecurEnvoy which examined 1,000 Britons. 66% of respondents fear being without mobile phone contact. That is 13% more than a similar study showed four years ago, Digital Trends informed.
41% of respondents carry two mobile phones to make sure that they are constantly accessible. When asked whether they feel anxiety when without their mobile phones, 70% of women and 61% of men responded positively. More men, however, carry two cell phones. As for age, the greatest fear of being inaccessible by the mobile phone is experienced by young people aged 18 to 24 years.
Nomophobia (from the English "no mobile phobia") is manifested by owners of mobile phones who immediately fall under great level of stress when losing the cell phone, turning it off or running out of battery. They immediately become anxious that they cannot be in contact with their family, friends or professional contacts. Given the growing dependence of all of us on mobile devices, it is expected that this type of anxiety will become an increasingly common mental health problem.
Do you want to know if you are addicted to your mobile phone? Then answer YES or NO to the following statements by Digital Trends. The more positive answers, the more you should practice switching off your mobile phone.
- You spend more money on accessories for your cell phone that the phone originaly costed.
- You have 30 different applications installed and you use all of them.
- You set a sound alert for everything you do in your life.
- You read about your phone on your phone.
- You have reduced some of your expenses to be able to pay higher phone bill.
- Your battery rarely remains charged the whole day.
- When you break your phone, you feel as if you had lost a friend.
- When you meet people with the same mobile phone, you talk just about the phone.
- You feel panic when you reaches into a pocket or purse and find no cell phone there.
- You take your cell phone with you to the restroom.
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