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天氣與心情
Can Weather Affect Your Mood? By John M.
Grohol, Psy.D.
Higher temperatures can bring a
depressed person up.
Denissen et al. (2008) found that weather’s
daily influence has more of an impact on a person’s negative mood, rather than
helping one’s positive mood. Higher temperatures raise a person with a low mood
up, while things like wind or not enough sun made a low person feel even lower.
Seasonal affective disorder is real.
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a very
real kind of depressive disorder (technically referred to as a depressive
disorder with seasonal pattern) wherein a person’s major depressive episode is
connected to a specific season. While we most commonly think of SAD affecting
only people in the fall or winter months, a minority of people also experience
SAD during the spring and summer months too.
Heat (and extreme rain) brings out the
worst in people.
Hsiang et al. (2013) found a link between
human aggression and higher temperatures. As temperatures rose, the researchers
noted that intergroup conflicts also tended to jump — by 14 percent (a
significant increase). The scientists also found interpersonal violence rose by
4 percent.
These findings held true not only for
higher temperatures, but also that wet stuff that falls from the sky — rain.
The more it rained (especially in areas where high rainfall is not expected),
the more aggressive people seemed to get. However, this research could only
show a correlation between the two. It’s not at all clear that weather causes
these things to happen.
Other research has confirmed this finding.
For instance, researcher Marie Connolly (2013) found that women who were
interviewed on days “with more rain and higher temperatures [reported] statistically
and substantively decreasing life satisfaction, consistent with the affect
results.” On days with lower temperatures and no rain, the same subjects
reported higher life satisfaction.
Suicides peak during the spring ;
summer.
While springtime may be the season of hope
for many, it’s the season of hopeless for those who are depressed. Perhaps
buoyed by the increase in daylight and warmer temperatures, researchers
(Koskinen et al., 2002) found that outdoor workers were far more likely to
commit suicide in the spring months than during the winter months. For indoor
workers studied, suicides peaked in the summertime.
A Swedish study (Makris et al., 2013) that
examined all suicides in the country from 1992 to 2003 found a similar
spring-summer seasonal pattern peak for suicides as well — especially those
treated with an SSRI antidepressant.
Q;
Can weather affect your mood? How weather
affects our mood and impacts our lives.
Do you like summer or winter?
Does rain make us sad?
Do you have a good in sunny days or rainy
days?
What other factors impacts our mood?
Do you think heat (and extreme rain) brings
out the worst in people?
Do you think weather also influence your
personality type?
旅行教你的事
Things Travel Can Teach You
ordinarytraveler.com
1) To SLOW down: Oh what a rat race the
United States can be. It’s easy to slip into the mentality of wanting more and
wanting it now! Many employers encourage working overtime and they do not allow
more than 1 to 2 weeks vacation a year. This is a shocker for many Europeans
who get vacations of one month or longer per year. When I took 6 weeks off work
recently to travel around South East Asia, everybody I know said, “Wow, that is
a LONG time.” Once we were on the road and meeting other travelers, people were
astonished at how SHORT of a time we were taking to travel.
In other words, in many other places in the
world things go a lot slower. You will find that many cultures don’t even
understand the word we call, “stress”. Instead, many times you will hear the
phrase, “no worries” on a daily basis. While visiting these places, it’s easy
to adopt this way of life while you are on the road. You realize that you are
on their time, and it’s not a bad time to be on!
2) Live in the moment: Traveling does the
same thing for me as surfing does when it comes to living in the moment. When
you are surfing, you have to be fully aware of your surroundings in order to
catch a wave, and sometimes in order not to get pummeled by the ocean. Travel
can also do this for you. In many places, you have to be on guard while you are
traveling. You want to make sure nobody steals from you, mugs you, takes
advantage of you, etc etc. Also, you will find that things do not always go as
planned when you are traveling. You learn to go with the flow and make the best
of what is thrown at you.
3) Our day to day problems are not such a
big deal: Sometimes we tend to live in a little box and think that our problems
are monumental. But compared to what some people have to deal with on a day to
day basis, many of our problems really are not that bad.
Q:
What are the things travel can teach you?
Any special travelling experiences?
What are the activities good for holidays?
How to slow down your life?
How to live in the moment and enjoy life?
Which beautiful places you recommend for
travelers?
In this article said” our day to day
problems are not such a big deal” what do you think?
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