Day 44: One think I learned today…
How often are you checking your email?
Is your email usage causing stress? I think this is very individualized. Some people maybe checking a personal email account with fun advertisements, emails from family members or in my case, newsletters about topics I enjoy. Others may be reading work emails with stressful information.
A study was conducted with 124 adults. They were randomly assigned to limit checking their email to three times a day. Then during a different week, participants could check their email an unlimited number of times per day.
Results found that during the limited email use week, participants experienced significantly lower daily stress than during the unlimited email use week. Lower stress, in turn, predicted higher well-being.
Again, this can vary person to person but you may want to try checking your email less frequently and see how you feel.
Source Kostadin Kushlev, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Checking email less frequently reduces stress, Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 43, 2015, Pages 220-228.
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