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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.
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