Reducing the frequency of checking your mail can help reduce stress, found a new study.

These instructions were then reversed for the participants during a subsequent week. During the study period, participants also answered brief daily surveys, including information about their stress levels.
Kostadin Kushlev, the study’s lead author and a PhD candidate at UBC’s Dept. of Psychology, said that the findings showed that people felt less stressed when they checked their email less often.
He added that most participants found it quite difficult to check their email only a few times a day, which makes their obvious-in-hindsight findings so striking: People find it difficult to resist the temptation of checking email, and yet resisting this temptation reduces their stress.
The study is published online in Computers in Human Behavior.
Source-ANI