Too much Time on the Cell Phone Could Raise Anxiety, Reduce Happiness for Students

You know how we all love our cell phones? Even have a special case for it and everything? Can't sit through a family dinner without texting our best friend? Well (drum roll) turns out, this technological device may be making us unhappy, and if you're still in school, it's likely linked to lower success in the academic world, as well as higher anxiety.

In a survey of over 500 college aged students, Kent University researchers found that those who used cell phones frequently performed poorer in academics, were less happy and experienced a lot of anxiety compared to peers.

Study authors recorded information regarding daily cell phone usage among college students and compared that data to self-reported anxiety, life satisfactions and level of happiness. They even received permission to look at the participant's academic records. All participants were undergraduates.

Results showed that frequent use of cell phones had a negative impact on the students GPA, which often lead to problems with anxiety and happiness.

Unfortunately, that's not the only problem that cell phone use has been connected to. A recent July study showed that extensive cell phone use could also be linked to poor fitness, according to the New York Daily News.

Cell phones can even cause death, in some instances. It's estimated that 1 in 20 U.S. traffic accidents involved a driver talking on a cell phone or texting, according to information from the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis from 2005.

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