Research results show that women are more likely to fall into 'Zoom tiredness'
The pandemic of the new coronavirus has increased remote lessons and telecommuting, and the demand for video conferencing tools like Zoom has skyrocketed, but
Nonverbal Mechanisms Predict Zoom Fatigue and Explain Why Women Experience Higher Levels than Men by Geraldine Fauville
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3820035
'Zoom Fatigue' May Finally Have an Explanation, And It's Affecting Women More
https://www.sciencealert.com/we-may-have-found-one-of-the-main-reasons-for-zoom-fatigue-and-it-s-affecting-women-more
A research team including Jeff Hancock, a psychologist at Stanford University, conducted a fact-finding survey on 'Zoom fatigue.' Research shows that one of the main causes of 'Zoom fatigue' is the mental burden that researchers call 'mirror anxiety', in which they have to keep looking at themselves in the mirror. ..
With video conferencing tools such as Zoom, you have to see yourself in a video call, so if you have a meeting with Zoom for hours a day, the 'mirror anxiety' can cause mental fatigue. It will accumulate.
Furthermore, it has become clear that there is a gender difference in the effects of 'Zoom fatigue'. The survey asked 10,322 subjects about the effects of Zoom in a questionnaire format. The results revealed that about one in seven women (13.8%) felt very tired after the Zoom meeting.
Hancock, who conducted the study, said, 'I've heard cases where women are more affected by Zoom fatigue, but this study is the first to actually show that with quantitative data. And it's more important to know why Zoom is tired. '
The research team, Hancock and colleagues, evaluated the subjects' Zoom fatigue using the index 'Zoom & Exhaustion Fatigue (ZEF)' developed in another study. Anyone can evaluate Zoom fatigue using ZEF from the following page.
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'Mirror anxiety' is cited as one of the causes of Zoom anxiety, but this is not the only factor. The factors that make women feel tired of Zoom are that they feel 'trapped' in having to stay within the angle of view of the camera, and that women tend to have longer video conferencing than men. It is usually mentioned that there is no break during a call.
Past studies have shown that women are more likely to focus on themselves when looking in the mirror, and the research team speculates that similar psychological effects occur during video conferencing on Zoom. 'Gender differences have been identified across several different studies, and even with other factors in mind, gender differences can be seen. This is a truly consistent finding,' Hancock said.
According to the research team, Zoom fatigue is also affected by personality, age, and race. Zoom tiredness is especially felt for introverts, young people, anxious people, and people of color.
As a measure against Zoom fatigue, the research team has stated that there will be days when video conferencing will not be held, and that some meetings will be changed to audio only.
According to the research team, 'Since the world has moved to an era after the pandemic of the new coronavirus, it is more likely that work will be a hybrid of remote and face-to-face in the future. Given that it happens equally, it's important to maximize the benefits of video conferencing while reducing the psychological burden, 'concludes the paper.
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