Known as 'nomophobia,' the fear of being without one's smartphone has become a common experience as we become more and more reliant upon - or addicted to - those tiny computers in our pockets.
Using an online survey tool, the academics recruited 559 participants between the ages of 18 and 45 from post-secondary schools and universities in Eastern Romania and asked them questions that assessed their narcissistic traits, how stressed out they were, and how addicted to social media they were.
Interestingly, the younger respondents in the study tended to skew both more narcissistic and more nomophobic, which probably makes sense given that today's young adults have spent most of their lives online and had their identities shaped and mediated by social media.
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