Are you addicted to your mobile phone?
By Will Park on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 at 12:11 PM PST In Research
Well, according to a recent UK study by Professor Nada Kakabadse of Northampton University, there’s about a 33% (one-third) likelihood that you are indeed addicted to your mobile phone or similar electronic doohickey. Of 360 study participants, about one-third were suggested to be addicted to their mobile gadgets.
The addiction apparently starts off as an expected boost in productivity – hyper-connectivity allows workers to constantly be a few keystrokes away from work-related emails and messages. But, as time goes on, the addiction progresses and manifests itself in gadget-longing anxiety. Often, the addiction can go undetected, and by the time the diagnoses is made, it’s “too late.”
Kakabadse is calling for workplaces to give employees a heads up on how to safely use those dangerous mobile devices.
Anyone else out there get anxious when you don’t have immediate access to your cellphone? Do you sleep with your mobile phone (which can also cause sleep problems, by the way)? Do you wake up in the middle of the night to check messages? Does your mobile phone take priority over your friends and loved ones? Be careful, you might be addicted. I’m surely not addicted…wait, where’s my phone?! Oh, there it is…good.
[Via: BBC]
