The holidays are the most festive time of the year that you spend on loved ones undisturbed with your loved ones, this delicious eats, gifts distributed, and simply the beautiful hours enjoy.

But not always, runs Christmas eve really harmonious. Differences of opinion and different expectations result in many families to small Kriseleien.

A recent survey of elite partners 1.687 Singles now shows what is for most a definite mood killer at Christmas, and the excessive use of Smartphones.

Smartphones at Christmas, put aside better

Three-quarters of the respondents find it to Christmas is particularly annoying, if the Partner is constantly looking at the Display. Women (80 percent) have a bigger Problem than men (70 percent).

Not really it is better, if the contemplative hours in detail fürFacebook, Instagram and co. are staged and shared.

69 percent of all respondents would you mind if our time together would have to suffer from this duration of illumination.

Every Second person wants a cell phone free Christmas

Of the excessive use of mobile phones only Partner not to feel, by the way, disturbed, also the Relatives and friends to prepare with this behavior, certainly not joy.

A recent survey by Groupon under 1.505 Federal citizens clearly demonstrates this: More than half of the respondents (55 percent) wish for Christmas is a break from the digital world.

To achieve this in their own environment, however, is not quite so simple. After all, 55 percent attack within the first hour after waking Up to the mobile phone.

More than 17 percent even, to spend Christmas more time than usual in front of the small screen. Among 18-to 24-year-olds, almost 30 per cent.

Virtually with other be connected – even at Christmas

The majority of respondents use their Smartphones to make phone Calls and consume messages (52 percent each).

Photos of the celebrations knippst also every Second, and 47 percent send text messages. In the social media to the celebration 36 percent days of frolicking after all.

On the social networks the respondents are mainly on the road, to send messages to the loved one (69 percent).

44 percent want to follow the holidays of friends and family online, and every third would like to even his lovely moments to share with others.

However, some have access only to the mobile phone, to kill time, 26 percent want to kill in front of the Display, the boredom.

Chain messages? Prefer not to!

Anyone who is over the holidays – for whatever reason – in front of the Smartphone, it should forego some annoying habits, the better.

Particularly unpopular chain, for example, are messages – every third person feels disturbed by them. Also Christmas greetings from people of whom you hear nothing else, not able to look forward to at least 28 percent.

Forwarded GIFs on Whatsapp, and the many posts about the festival of the contacts nerves about 20 percent. There’s only one good: cell phone is put away.

Dispute risk is not just for Christmas

However, not only due to chain letters to the holidays lurking in the Smartphone-use conflict potential.

Because even away from the Christmas tree and Christmas the reflex-like grip to the phone can lead to the dissatisfaction of the people present can feel by the constant view of the Display quickly neglected.

Nowadays, the Smartphone facilitates social interaction, is the same time, but also a danger to the maintenance of social relationships.

“Smartphones and the social networks provide space for the disclosure of information and provide the ability to respond to others,” explains psychology Professor David Sbarra.

“The virtual Connections, however, can also have an impact on existing relationships.”

Therefore, still more is to Christmas: The Smartphone to the side and the time in the Here and Now with loved ones to spend.

Source

  • Sbarra, D. (2018): Smartphones and Close Relationships: The Case for an Evolutionary Mismatch, retrieved on 22.12.2019: https://psyarxiv.com/rqu6f/

Cornelia Bertram

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