According to the recent reports from the Daily Mail, a recent research conducted at the Texas' Baylor University concluded that phone addicts might actually be depressed. So, people who are always checking their phones every minute or so, you should be doing something else instead.
The researchers asked 346 men and women who were between the ages of 19 and 24, were asked to complete a questionnaire. Through that they were able to determine their personality type and also their relationship with their mobile phones.
They found out that the people who find really hard to focus and also to keep their emotions in check, were the ones who were most obsessed with their mobile phones. Those who were not too dependent or obsessed with their phones, were found to be more reserved and introverted participants.
The researchers write "Those who express feelings of shyness and bashfulness may be less likely to become dependent on their cell phones than their more extroverted counterparts.
Much like a variety of substance addictions, cell phone addiction may be an attempt at mood repair.
Incessant checking of mails, sending texts, tweeting, and surfing the web may act as pacifiers for the unstable individual distracting him or herself from the worries of the day and providing solace, albeit temporarily, from such concerns."
They found that a student spends an average of 95 minutes of their day to texting. When they were separated from their phones, most of them became anxious. Researchers also found that the participants spent 49 minutes a day checking email on their phones and another 39 minutes checking Facebook.
Some participants would spend as much as 10 hours of their day on their mobile phone. They would text and then head straight to social media.
In another study at Baylor last year, they found that people who do not check their phones often, might be an extreme minority.
