Zoom Fatigue May Finally Have an Explanation, And It s Affecting Women More
18 APRIL 2021
More than a year into the coronaviruspandemic, you ve probably at least heard of Zoom fatigue – if not experienced it yourself – and now a new study has dug deeper into the reasons for it happening.
One of the primary drivers behind this video calling weariness seems to be what the researchers are calling mirror anxiety , or the mental strain of having to constantly look at yourself, across what might be hours of meetings per day.
And the effect is more exhausting for women. Of the 10,322 people questioned for the study, around 1 in 7 women (13.8 percent) reported feeling very to extremely fatigued after Zoom calls, compared to around 1 in 20 men (5.5 percent).
Zoom Fatigue Greater for Women by Colleen Fleiss on April 18, 2021 at 11:03 PM
Zoom fatigue, the feeling of exhaustion that comes from a day of back-to-back online meetings is greater for women than men, revealed a new Stanford University research.
What contributed most to the feeling of exhaustion among women was an increase in what social psychologists describe as self-focused attention triggered by the self-view in video conferencing, according to the study released on the Social Science Research Network. Self-focused attention refers to a heightened awareness of how one comes across or how one appears in a conversation, said co-author of the new study Jeffrey Hancock, Professor of Communication in the School of Humanities and Sciences.
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Zoom fatigue greater for women, finds Stanford study
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New York, April 15 : Even as video calls have taken over people s work and personal lives amid the pandemic, a new Stanford University research has found that the feeling of exhaustion that comes from a day of back-to-back online meetings, also known as Zoom fatigue , is greater for women than men.
The researchers found that overall, one in seven women 13.8 per cent compared with one in 20 men 5.5 per cent reported feeling very to extremely fatigued after Zoom calls.
What contributed most to the feeling of exhaustion among women was an increase in what social psychologists describe as self-focused attention triggered by the self-view in video conferencing, according to the study released on the Social Science Research Network.
Zoom fatigue is real and even worse for women. Stanford researchers explain why
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In this file photo illustration taken on March 29, 2020, Zoom app logo is displayed on a smartphone on March 30, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. In the first large-scale paper analyzing Zoom fatigue, Stanford researchers found that feelings of exhaustion particular to long spans of time on Zoom is more severe for women than for men.OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP via Getty Images
Zoom fatigue is real but it’s even more acute and intense for women, new research from Stanford shows.
In the first large-scale paper analyzing Zoom fatigue, Stanford researchers found that feelings of exhaustion following long spans of time spent on Zoom calls are more severe for women than for men.