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Are you addicted to your mobile phone?

23/01/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

Texting‘Materialism and impulsiveness drive mobile phone addiction…. they are used as part of the conspicuous consumption ritual and also act as a pacifiers for the impulsive tendencies of the user – impulsiveness playing an important role in both behavioural and substance addictions….’

So say Professors Stephen Pirog and James Roberts at Baylor and Seton Hall Universities in a study published in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions.

‘Previous studies have shown that young adults send an average of 109.5 text messages a day or approximately 3,200 texts each month. They receive an additional 113 text messages and check their cell 60 times in a typical day and on average, college students spend approximately seven hours daily interacting with information and communication technology.’

While this could be seen merely as a youthful fad, the professors suggest that ‘mobile phone addiction’ is a genuine addiction and needs to be recognised as such.

TextingObviously, I would be concerned at anyone spending too much time on their mobile phone because of the damage that excess electromagnetic radiation might do to their current and future health. Although I am very happy to note that the majority of young people now spend far more time texting or using their smart phones to access the internet/Facebook etc than they do talking on them – thus reducing their exposure to harmful EMR significantly. However, it seems that it is not only their physical health that I need to be concerned about…

For a fuller report see this article in Science Daily.

Category: Electrosensitivity, Food/Health PolicyTag: accessing Facebook, Baylor University, cell phone addiction, cell phones, electromagnetic radiation, excess electromagnetic radiation, Journal of Behavioral Addictions, mobile phone addiction, mobile phone usage, mobile phones, Seton Hall University, Texting

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  1. jeemboh

    23/01/2013 at 18:40

    Whether mobile phone addiction is more or less dodgy than the pharmacological variety is an open and interesting question…

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