Your Cell Phone Could Be Ruining Your Relationship!

Nothing kills romance as fast as a smartphone, and now, research confirms it. Being connected to your cell phone can sabotage your attachment and intimacy with your partner.

Much research has been done on how the Cell phones affect relationships. Some suggest they are a positive influence – that being in quick and easy contact with your partner through phone calls and text messages makes people happier and more secure in their relationships.

But research reveals the dark side of cellphones. Real-life interactions are hampered when a person feels like constantly checking a social network, for example, and the distraction that a cell phone offers a partner doesn’t make the other person feel good.

But nowadays smartphones are much more invasive and demand much more of our time, connecting us to the world in a much broader way than the famous “bricks” of yesteryear — I miss my v3 black hahaha!

A team of researchers suspected that smartphones could be making relationships worse. So they gathered 170 college students who were in a romantic relationship to see the role of their cell phones in the relationship.

In the study, published in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culturecollege lovebirds were asked to report using their own smartphones: how dependent they felt on their device and how much it would bother them to go without it for a day.

Then they answered similar questions about their partners’ smartphone addiction.

No matter how much a person used the device, but how much she needed the device.

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People who were more dependent on their smartphones reported being less sure about the future of their relationship. People who thought their partners were overly dependent on their devices said they were less satisfied in their relationship.

In other words, people are jealous of their partner’s smartphone. “I’m more likely to think my relationship is doomed the more I believe my partner needs their cell phone,” explains Matthew Lapierre, assistant professor in the department of communication at University of Arizona, author of the study with his former graduate student Meleah. “It’s not use; is the psychological relationship with that device,” he adds.

The researchers are doing a follow-up experiment to try to understand the mechanisms behind their findings and see if smartphone addiction affects other areas of lifesuch as academic performance, and whether factors such as self-esteem predict a person’s smartphone obsession.

“Smartphones are fundamentally different from previous technologies, so their effect is much more powerful,” says Lapierre. “I don’t want to say it’s uniformly negative, but we should be careful.”

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