Smartphones: How are they bringing adverse effects to relationships ?

A research has now come out regarding the adverse effects of a smartphone and its role in relationships. Now, it's confirmed that nothing kills romance faster than pulling out a smartphone. Being constantly attached to your phone can now sabotage the bonding and affection towards your partner. Plenty of research have been done on how cell phones affect relationships. However, some are pretty confident about the roles of smartphones in their lives and due to that, they've been in constant touch with their partners through calling and texting makes people happier and more secure in their relationships.

However, the research also has revealed the dark side of cellphones. It's been found that real-life interactions bring down when a person feels the urge to constantly glance their phones. This induces a lot of distraction resulting in dulled out bonding and doesn't make the other half of you feel very good. The report also indicated about how demanding smartphones are, for the production of our lives connecting us to the world in vastly more ways than other media. A team of smartphones thought that smartphones might result in worse relationships. So they gathered about less than two hundred college students asking them about their commitments in their relationships and also questioned the role of their smartphones played in their respective lives.

It didn't matter much how much a person used their device, but how much a person needed their device did. People who were more dependent on their smartphones reported being less certain about their partnerships. People who felt that their partners were overly dependent on their devices said they were less satisfied in their relationship.Or to put it simply, people became more jealous of their partner's phones. The researchers are now doing a follow-up experiment to try and understand the casual mechanisms behind their findings and to see whether or not smartphone dependency affects other areas of their life even academic performances.