Why nomophobia is making headlines

Nomo — what?

Nomophobia — the fear of being out of mobile phone contact.

What on Earth is that?

Do you find yourself constantly checking your phone, or do you feel anxious when you see your low battery signal?

Yes!

That is called nomophobia – no-mobile-phone-phobia. A fear that hits when you feel disconnected from your smartphone.

Has it been scientifically proven?

Researchers from the Iowa State University have developed a questionnaire to help you determine if you are a nomophobe.

I am listening.

The questionnaire asks participants to consider their level of comfort with hypothetical situations involving mobile phones, ranging from how scared they would be if they ran out of battery to how anxious it would make them to be without a way to contact their families and friends.

What are the results?

In his test, people rate statements on a scale from 1 to 7 with 1 being strongly disagree and 7 being strongly agree. In the end, after adding everything up and the higher the number, the greater the nomophobia. Students were found to be the worst sufferers.

Doesn’t sound too good…

You don’t have to go cold turkey and chuck the phone. Just monitor your usage.

Where can i get the questions?

Don't bother about them, chances are you already suffer from nomophobia.

Says who?

Your phone battery's anyway died out, and you haven't got a call for the past two hours.

Nice try, but if that actually did happen, the anxiety would have killed me by now.

See, I told you.