Article: Fed: Mobile phone use prompts 'personal problems' - researcher


AAP General News (Australia)
04-03-2006
Fed: Mobile phone use prompts 'personal problems' - researcher

By Jade Bilowol

BRISBANE, April 3 AAP - Australians are increasingly becoming so addicted to mobile
phones they are suffering anxiety and self-esteem problems akin to substance abuse, a
researcher says.

Brisbane-based consumer behaviour researcher Diana James said today with Australia
owning a collective 19 million mobiles, they had become a "huge part" of people's social
lives.

So much so, excessive mobile users were experiencing personal problems ranging from
agitation if forced to turn them off, to low self-esteem if they didn't receive calls
or texts, she said.

"Like substance ...

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