Phone Addiction Test Results — Moderate
Battling addiction & ready for help?
Your result
Moderateon a scale of 10 to 60
Researchers treat 31 or higher as the point where it is worth looking more closely. Yours is above that. The published at-risk cutoff is 31 for men and 33 for women; we screen at the lower of the two.
That is not a diagnosis, and it does not mean you are an addict. It means your answers look like a pattern clinicians recognize, and that is worth a conversation with someone who treats it.
Screen used: Smartphone Addiction Scale, Short Version (Kwon and colleagues, 2013), 10 questions.
Your answers show a pattern that is costing you time and attention you would rather spend elsewhere.
What tends to help at this level
- Make the phone harder to reach at the times you lose most: greyscale, notifications off, out of the room.
- Two weeks of limits that do not hold is useful information, not failure.
- If it is affecting sleep, work or relationships, it is worth talking to someone.
Where to go next
This is a self-check, not a diagnosis. No questionnaire can tell you whether you have a condition, and a low score does not mean nothing is wrong if it is affecting your life. Read more about phone addiction, or speak to a clinician.
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