Poor Sleep At Night Makes You Grumpy Online In Morning, Finds Study

Having a good night’s sleep is important and not getting enough hours of sleep can cause a bunch of side effects the next day including under-eye bags, headache and lowered ability to concentrate.?

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And now a novel study has revealed that not getting adequate sleep could make you an angry and grumpy grouch to people online, especially on emails and texts.?

This is according to a study conducted by West Texas A&M University who looked at 131 full time working adults who answered two surveys every day for two weeks looking at sleep duration, tiredness and how they interacted with individuals online.?

Side effects of poor sleeping habits

Questionnaires were sent at 7 AM each workday that included how much sleep they had the night before, followed by another survey at around 4 PM that asked the individuals how tired they felt and whether they had been rude to someone online (emails or texts).?

The study saw a total of 945-morning surveys and 843-afternoon surveys. Instances of being rude included ignoring a request to schedule a meeting, making demeaning or derogatory remarks through email.

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Researchers saw that a shorter night of sleep saw employees to have more self-regulatory fatigue and were engaged in higher levels of cyber incivility at work.?

Study lead author Trevor Watkins explained, “Our findings build on previous research that suggests that self-control is restored while people sleep, to the extent that after a poor night's sleep, people lose their self-restraint and are more likely to engage in cyber incivility at work the next day.”

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He added, “This has provided many benefits, including efficient and timely communication across vast distances. However, in addition to these benefits, electronic communication also presents the possibility of cyber incivility. Cyber incivility is defined as 'communicative behaviour exhibited in computer mediated interactions that violate workplace norms of mutual respect. Thus, contemporary workplaces which lean heavily on electronic communication expose employees to cyber incivility.”