First identified in 2008, nomophobia – the fear of being out of mobile phone contact – is sharply increasing in the UK. A recent survey of 1,000 people in employment, conducted using OnePoll, discovered two-thirds of respondents fear losing or being without their mobile phone.
Digging a little deeper, more women worry about losing their phones than men – 70 percent of the women surveyed compared to 61 percent of the men. When split by age, the younger age group (18 to 24) are more nomophobic at 77 percent, with the 25 to 34 age group second at 68 percent. Perhaps a little more surprisingly is that third most nomophobic are those 55 and older.