Research shows that after-hours mail check is very harmful to health

Not only stress, too many email checkers also exhibit many diseases such as heart disease, obesity, memory loss, digestive disorders and depression.

Unless you are too young or too old to understand everything related to email, you are certainly no stranger to these e-mails when on average you can receive up to 100 emails of all types on average. A study by the Future Work Center in the UK showed how people receive these emails greatly affects our psychological stress as well as our health status.

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People who regularly check email constantly and on time are always in a stressful state.

Specifically, a survey was carried out on more than 2,000 volunteers participating in research programs in many different areas of work. Attendees will have to answer questions like they usually check email at any time or check email will affect their mood. Preliminary results show that those who regularly check email constantly and on time are always in a state of stress. Even those who have a habit of checking email outside working hours are those who have the most stressful expressions.

The author of this study, Dr. Richard MacKinnon, psychologist, said: "Email is like a double-edged sword. They are both a useful support tool for work, and an agent to leave. Psychological stressful conditions for users , even if you check your mail regularly and at unreasonable times, it is easy to lead to mental collapse . " Mr. MacKinnon also added that current life makes us form our own work habits that affect our emotions, especially habits like checking email, reading messages constantly creating harm to people but no one pays attention to this.

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The time of checking mail also affects user psychology.

Dr. Richard MacKinnon also affirmed in his research besides checking email continuously, the time when people do this also affects their psychology, especially in the early morning and late evening. According to the survey results, about half of the volunteers participating in the study set up reminders every time a new email arrives. Besides, 62% of the respondents said that they opened their email application continuously throughout the day. These people all have psychological stress symptoms every time they come in contact with email. In addition, those working in management positions are at higher risk of stress than others. Not only stress, too many email checkers also exhibit many diseases such as heart disease, obesity, memory loss, digestive disorders and depression.

Experts also said that the different personality of each person plays a role in regulating the relationship between the psychological state and their email check frequency , so the consequence of bad effects from checking the box Too much email for each person is not the same. This led Dr. MacKinnon to admit that it was difficult to come up with a common solution, but he also advised that restrictions should be made to turn on e-mail applications all day or install mode New email system is more suitable if you feel too stressed because you have to check email continuously. And yet, this study also shows that people with psychological states must always be willing to check email, the work efficiency is significantly lower than others.

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People who have a habit of checking email outside working hours are those who have the most stressful expressions.

In fact, a 2014 study by Stanford University also said that people who work up to 70 hours a week are significantly worse in quality than those who work only 50 to 55 hours. This is also related to new research when hardworking people mean that they will check email more often and how things are above that clearly stated.