Losing loved ones is a highly common fear that most of us possess. Other phobias linked to water, heights, books and many more are also acceptable till date. However, can you believe that losing contact with your mobile phone would also lead to an anxiety?
The new study carried out by YouGov in UK stated that Britishers were more likely to be stressful without their mobile phones. Researchers have named the fear of being out of mobile phone contact as ‘Nomophobia’.
In the survey, 20 percent of the candidates felt as traumatic as though they were moving houses or breaking up with a partner, when they were out of mobile phone contact. YouGov mentioned that 53 percent of the UK’s 45 million mobile-phone users become anxious when their battery of the phone is down or when the network is low, or even if they lose their handset.
Stewart Fox-Mills, the head of telephony at the Post Office that commissioned the survey, noted that nomophobia affects many people. However, men (52 percent) are more likely to be mobile phone phobic as compared to women (48 percent).
Out of the 2,163 people who were questioned, more than 20 percent agreed that they never switched off their handsets, whereas 10 percent admitted that due to their job profile, they needed to be contactable all the time. While, over 55 percent people of the volunteers use their phone to be in contact with friends and family, 9 percent agreed that switching off the phone made them anxious.
What have you decided, are you in the category of nomophobia?
