Conflicting results are reported in resesrch studies. Some studies show that he weather appears to influence mood and productivity, but only to a small extent compared with the aggregate of all other controlling factors (see attached articles)
Klimstra et al. (2011) found that half of the 415 adolescents studied weren’t really impacted much at all by changes in the weather, while the other half were.
My personal experience is that long cold winters are depressing and spring and summer brings joy!. In the old days, when I was a graduate student in McGill university (Montreal), winters were definitely cold, long and depressing!.
In city that I live (yazd, Iran) now, we have sunny days almost all year long and barely experience the below zero temperatures. I do not see any significant difference between my productivity and mood in summers and winters.
Klimstra, Theo A.; Frijns, Tom; Keijsers, Loes; Denissen, Jaap J. A.; Raaijmakers, Quinten A. W.; van Aken, Marcel A. G.; Koot, Hans M.; van Lier, Pol A. C.; Meeus, Wim H. J.; (2011). Come rain or come shine: Individual differences in how weather affects mood. Emotion, 11, 1495-1.
Conflicting results are reported in resesrch studies. Some studies show that he weather appears to influence mood and productivity, but only to a small extent compared with the aggregate of all other controlling factors (see attached articles)
Klimstra et al. (2011) found that half of the 415 adolescents studied weren’t really impacted much at all by changes in the weather, while the other half were.
My personal experience is that long cold winters are depressing and spring and summer brings joy!. In the old days, when I was a graduate student in McGill university (Montreal), winters were definitely cold, long and depressing!.
In city that I live (yazd, Iran) now, we have sunny days almost all year long and barely experience the below zero temperatures. I do not see any significant difference between my productivity and mood in summers and winters.
Klimstra, Theo A.; Frijns, Tom; Keijsers, Loes; Denissen, Jaap J. A.; Raaijmakers, Quinten A. W.; van Aken, Marcel A. G.; Koot, Hans M.; van Lier, Pol A. C.; Meeus, Wim H. J.; (2011). Come rain or come shine: Individual differences in how weather affects mood. Emotion, 11, 1495-1.
The first thing I had to figure out what is the mind, and how it works. With what we associate mind? Correctly! With logic, cleverness, rationality. Who do we call smart? A man who "everything is under control", who knows a lot, a lot of knowledge to draw conclusions. A man who, thanks to the mind, avoiding many of the mistakes and troubles.
Yes, thanks to him that we can survive in this horrible world.
If you do not mind the importance of a man is not only the servant of the mind, but not a slave to emotion. Emotions just thinking corrected. By the way, even the weather affect our mind.
Weather is one particularly large indicator of how your mood is going to turn out for the day, and if you have ever thought that the weather seems to be an apt metaphor for your mood (a pathetic fallacy as it is known in literature) then most likely the link is there indeed but the correlation is actually working the other way around.
The first and most well known way in which weather affects mood is in what is known as 'seasonal affective disorder' – abbreviated rather appropriately to 'SAD'. This condition can also be known as 'winter depression', 'winter blues' or 'seasonal depression' and basically it describes a condition in which the individual finds their mood so tied to the changing of the seasons that they in fact exhibit symptoms close to depression every winter. This condition is recognized in the 'DSM-IV' – the 'Diagnostics and Statistical Manual' used by psychologists where it is described as a 'specifier of major depression'.
I do not like such types of weather that prevent me to go outside. Heavy rain, too hot, heavy snow...! I am not a fun of extreme temperatures, both positive and negative. I feel better under normal weather conditions.
The weather’s impact on our emotions may depend on lots of variables, like personality. Person in love, are happier and less angry on days with more sunshine and higher temperatures. More hours of precipitation is associated with less happiness and more anxiety and anger.
It is also seen that higher temperatures can bring a depressed person up. A depressive disorder with weather (SAD) , is seen to affect people in the fall or winter months, but it has also been seen that a minority of people also experience SAD during the spring and summer months too.
Some researchers found a link between human aggression and higher temperatures and rain. The more it rained more aggressive people seemed to get. On days with lower temperatures and no rain, the same subjects could reported higher life satisfaction. Also there are suicides peak during the spring and summer, because could be felt as the season of hopeless for those who are depressed. There is also found pattern for suicides.
..then...time has some kind of effect on each of us, being affected also by the influence of random events. We all could react in a differente way, but also could share some comon behaviour according to the weather.
In statistics is similar to CFA, where each person is seen as a factor that share some comon behaviour with others, but also has his/her unique caracteristics, that make him/her a different and special one.
There is a widespread belief that weather affects mood. However, few studies have investigated this link, and even less is known about individual differences in people's responses to the weather. In this study, we sought to identify weather reactivity types by linking self-reported daily mood across 30 days with objective weather data. We identified four distinct types among 497 adolescents and replicated these types among their mothers. The types were labeled Summer Lovers (better mood with warmer and sunnier weather), Unaffected (weak associations between weather and mood), Summer Haters (worse mood with warmer and sunnier weather), and Rain Haters (particularly bad mood on rainy days). In addition, intergenerational concordance effects were found for two of these types, suggesting that weather reactivity may run in the family. Overall, the large individual differences in how people's moods were affected by weather reconciles the discrepancy between the generally held beliefs that weather has a substantive effect on mood and findings from previous research indicating that effects of weather on mood are limited or absent. Scientific research:
Conflicting results are reported in other articles. Please see the refs.
Howarth, E., & Hoffman, M. S. (1984). A multidimensional approach to the relationship between mood and weather. British Journal of Psychology, 75(1), 15-23.
Kööts, Liisi, Anu Realo, and Jüri Allik. "The influence of the weather on affective experience." Journal of individual differences (2015).
Sanders, Jeffrey L., and Mary S. Brizzolara. "Relationships between weather and mood." The Journal of General Psychology 107.1 (1982): 155-156.
Denissen, Jaap JA, et al. "The effects of weather on daily mood: a multilevel approach." Emotion 8.5 (2008): 662.
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There is a definite correlation between weather and our mood/ emotions with the interesting comments above. The BBC Weather has an excellent summary of their observations, includes things like "children tend to misbehave on windy days, also headaches increase and mental health is affected".
May I add that there is also a big correlation with humidity, dry versus average versus humid. Some prefer one and are adversely affected by the others.
There is a song saying that we take the weather with us, whenever we go. In souther Europe, where the sun shines, the flower are blossoming , the flagrances are in the air , people are happy and jolly.... beyond "bioweather"- we are told in TV that the weather fronts will influence cardiovascular, rheumatism, etc- is also the "mood",the mind - the winter depression... the lack of light, the lack of sunshine, what about the influence of vitamin D on the immune system?.. the antiinflammatory cytokines boost, the lessening of pain through infrared radiation, who knows? here comes the sun, it's all right:))) and if not outside, in our hearts.
New and novel study reported that a person born in the summer and is characterized by a balanced character and a nice bug be a bit self-centered. A person born in the spring is characterized personality and worm to others and sincere and energetic, but is proud of himself too much.
A person born in the autumn is characterized simple personality and tends to live in a quiet and simple environment, but mostly be controversial to others. As a person born in the winter is characterized affectionate personality and has a remarkable capacity to solve the problems of others.
2 - mental state and the weather:
Rights noted Weather seasons of the year in association with the case of mood since ancient times
People spring to relieve the soul and emotions send a humanitarian kind words. But the summer heat and winter cold associated with acute psychological emotions.
Autumn is linked in the mind drying off and tranquility and stillness. Modern science confirms the existence of a relationship between the state of self in terms of emotional balance and mood in moderation and disordered human behavior and the airline changes through electric and magnetic effects of cosmic mind interacts with the human nervous system
3 - best summer seasons:
Sunny skies and high temperatures offer a lot of benefits for the health and human life. It helps regulate the sunlight in most biological processes in the body nutrition experts that eating fruits and vegetables, natural juices working to reduce the risk of chronic diseases, in addition to its role in activating the immune system and reduce weight.
4-autumn and winter depression:
Can feel human through these chapters depressed because of changes in climate in the autumn or winter because of the short daylight hours
Or because of the frightening phenomena like lightning and thunder and wind paralyzing life and hit it to freeze such as snow and floods but can get rid of this depression to exercise some activities and taking certain vitamins
5. best chapters from a psychological point of spring:
The spring atmosphere in which the flowers are blooming and the nature is of rows of green is Joe gives comfort in self
And encourages activity where increasing daylight hours, but some feel sensitivity of this chapter, such as red-eye reduction and the other because of the profound changes get in the sleep system and vital processes in the body during the winter and is difficult for the body to get rid of them easily and to cope with the arrival of spring. When starting grades air temperature rise occurs in the expansion of the blood vessels, which leads to a decline in blood pressure and thus a sense of weakness and decline. There is a factor of light it is hard on the body easily and quickly when changing its rules of procedure to adapt a result of increased light in the spring so it is advisable Sport and Exercise careful fluid intake and fresh fruit and vegetables to alleviate weakness in the spring