Phone Addiction Test Results — High
Battling addiction & ready for help?
Your result
Highon 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 point to phone use that is affecting sleep, work or relationships, and that has not responded to cutting back.
What tends to help at this level
- This is past the point where app limits alone tend to work.
- Talk to a clinician who treats behavioural addiction — there is real treatment for this.
- If sleep has gone, start there. Almost nothing else improves while sleep is broken.
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.
Get Treatment Help
If you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, getting help is just a phone call away, or consider trying therapy online with BetterHelp.
Exclusive offer: 20% Off BetterHelp*Following links to the BetterHelp website may earn us a commission that helps us manage and maintain AddictionHelp.com. *Get 20% off your first month of BetterHelp. Offer valid for new BetterHelp users only. Offer cannot be combined with insurance.
