Unless you are too young or too old to understand what related to email, certainly you will be not strange to this electronic letter when you can get up to 100 emails every genre in an average week. A study by the Future Work center in the UK showed that how much the way people receive these emails affected our psychological stress level and health status.
Specifically, a survey was carried out over 2000 volunteers in many different fields of work. The participants would have to answer the questions as what time they usually checked email or how it could affect their mood. Preliminary results showed that people who regularly checked email constantly and punctuality always fell into a state of tension. Even those who have a habit of checking email outside business hours can have most manifestations of stress.
The author of this study, Dr. Richard MacKinnon psychologist, said: “Email is like a double-edged sword. It is a useful support tool for the job, and an agent leaving psychological stress status for users. Check mail on a regular basis and at unreasonable times easily leads to mental deterioration.” Mr. MacKinnon added that current life formed many habits affecting our own emotions, especially those habits like checking email, reading message continuously, but no one noticed it.
Dr. Richard MacKinnon also confirmed in his study that besides check email constantly, the time humans performing that action also affected their mentality, especially in the early morning and late evening. According to the survey results, about half of the volunteers set notification for new email. Additionally, 62% of respondents said that they opened the app email constantly during a day. These people have symptoms of psychological stress when exposing to the email. Also, people working in management positions have a higher risk of stress than others. Not only stress, people checking email too much have manifestations of many diseases such as heart disease, obesity, memory loss, eating disorders and depression.
The researchers also said that the personalities of each person would regulate the relationship between psychological status and frequency of checking email, so the consequences of checking mailbox too much for each person was not the same. This made Dr. MacKinnon admit that it was very difficult to make a general solution. But he also gave advice that we should limit enabling e-mail box all day or installing appropriate mode for email if you felt too stressed when having to constantly check email. And yet, this study also showed that those with the mentality always ready to check work email, the efficient would be less than others significantly.
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