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Mobile phones increase stress levels

      Sydney: Mobiles phones are raising stress levels at home and at work, according to a new research as their use is blurring the boundaries between work and home, causing professional worries to spill over into personal time, a study has found. Regular mobile phone users suffered more stress than those who rarely or never used them. They also complained of a lack of support, affection and companionship from partners and children. US researcher and sociologist Dr Noelle Chesley, of the University of Wisconsin, said families were suffering. "For both men and women, mobile phones provide a point of access that allow job concerns to affect family life, with negative consequences," Dr Chesley said. "In the case of job worries, mobile phones make you much more accessible. If you've left the office and someone phones you, they are not calling to say the project is going well, they're phoning to say things are going badly and they don't know what to do," she was quoted by the Herald Sun,as saying. "It is stressful and it is not going to make people's family lives relaxing and give people time to have relationships," she added. The study found the intrusion of work on family life affected both sexes. But working women suffered a double burden: mobile phone use also enabled family troubles to intrude into their professional lives. The head of Monash University's school of political and social inquiry, Prof Gary Bouma, said the US findings also applied to Australia, where there were an estimated 17 million mobile phones. Dr Elizabeth Hartnell-Young, from Melbourne University's centre for applied educational research, said people had to take control of their lives. "Mobile phones aren't doing these things to people. It's people doing these things to themselves," Dr Hartnell-Young said.
-Jan 4
, 2006

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