Silencing Smartphones Can Lead to More Stress… Wait, What?
June 28, 2022 11:00AM CDT
Shown at left is an HTC G1 smartphone offered by T-Mobile and at right is an Apple iPhone 4S smartphone in San Francisco, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Study: Silencing Smartphones Can Lead to More Stress
If you suffer with FOMO, this is about YOU.
Silencing your phone might actually make it worse. That’s according to a study, just published in Computers in Human Behavior.
138 iPhone users completed a survey to determine whether or not they suffered from FOMO, also known as “Fear of Missing Out.”
Individuals with high FOMO scores tended to use their phones more often; and they had higher feelings of stress when their phones were muted.
There’s more, here: (UPI)
