Discover if you're hooked on your smartphone with this test. Evaluate your behavior and find out if it's time for a digital detox
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Look around you at home, public transports, restaurants, office, or schools you find that the people is attach with the mobile all the time. According to the study on average an individual check mobile around 250 times. More over 70% of the people sleep and wake up with their mobile devices. On average we use our mobile 4 hours a day it means 28 hours every week and 120 hours every month.
If we monetize that time and calculate it and suppose that we have wage of 1000 per hour it means we can earn monthly 120000 that we waste by using mobile.
This is absolutely ridiculous you don’t know that how your mobile is plays with your personal and professional life, your career and the most important thing destroying your cognitive development.
In this important and critical article we will discuss that "How to check if you are addicted of smart phone or not?"
First of all for checking that you are addicted or not you have to assess yourself by bellow test at the end of test calculate your score and compare it with the summary.
Smartphone Compulsion Test
1. Do you find yourself spending more time on your cell or smartphone than you realize?
a. Yes
b. No
2. Do you find yourself mindlessly passing time on a regular basis by staring at your cell or smartphone?
a. Yes
b. No
3. Do you seem to lose track of time when using your cell or smartphone?
a. Yes
b. No
4. Do you find yourself spending more time texting, tweeting or emailing as opposed to talking to people in person?
a. Yes
b. No
5. Has the amount of time you spend you spend on your cell or smartphone been increasing?
a. Yes
b. No
6. Do you wish you could be a little less involved with your cell or smartphone?
a. Yes
b. No
7. Do you sleep with your cell or smartphone under your pillow or next to your bed regularly?
a. Yes
b. No
8. Do you find yourself viewing and answering texts, tweets and emails at all hours of the day and night-even when it means interrupting other things you are doing?
a. Yes
b. No
9. Do you text, email, tweet or surf while driving or doing other similar activities that require your focused attention and concentration?
a. Yes
b. No
10. Do you feel your use of your cell or smartphone decreases your productivity at times?
a. Yes
b. No
11. Do you feel reluctant to be without your cell or smartphone, even for a short time?
a. Yes
b. No
12. Do you feel ill-at-ease or uncomfortable when you accidentally leave your smartphone in the car or at home, have no service or have a broken phone?
a. Yes
b. No
13. When you eat meals, is your cell or smartphone always part of the table place setting?
a. Yes
b. No
14. When your cell or smartphone rings, beeps or buzzes, do you feel an intense urge to check for texts, tweets, emails, updates, etc.?
a. Yes
b. No
15. Do you find yourself mindlessly checking your cell or smartphone many times a day, even when you know there is likely nothing new or important to see?
a) Yes
b) No
Now evaluate the score by comparing your total number of yes answers with below table and let yourself where you lay.
Score Analysis Table:
[1-2]: Your behavior is normal
[3-4]: Your behavior is leaning towards problematic or compulsive use.
[5-7]: It is likely that you may have a problematic or compulsive smartphone use pattern.
[8 or above]: if your score is over 8 you might consider seeing a psychologist, psychiatrist, or psychotherapist who specializes in behavioral addictions for a consultation.
So this is all about How to check if you are addicted of smart phone or not.
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