Title: The Surprising Ways The Weather Affects Your Health And Well-Being | HuffPost Life
Headings: The Surprising Ways The Weather Affects Your Health And Well-Being
The Surprising Ways The Weather Affects Your Health And Well-Being
Here are eight things to know about how climate and weather can affect your well-being.
Wintertime can bring you down.
Extreme weather events contribute to mental health problems.
Extreme weather can bring out our empathy.
Day-to-day weather does affect your mood (if it's already a bad one).
Violent crime rises with the heat.
Suicide incidences have been tied to seasonal factors.
Warm climates have a lower risk of death.
Temperate weather, happier people?
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Content: Look no further than these heroes of Hurricane Sandy and stories of kindness in post-Katrina New Orleans. "Although there’s a mentality that disasters provoke frenzied selfishness and brutal survival-of-the-fittest competition, the reality is that people coping with crises are actually quite altruistic," TIME Healthland wrote. Day-to-day weather does affect your mood (if it's already a bad one). If you're in a good mood, chances are, bad weather won't bring you down too much. But if you're feeling crummy already, a cold, dreary day could easily make your mood go from bad to worse. In a 2008 study published in the journal Emotion, researchers evaluated the personalities and moods of more than 1,200 adult men and women through daily questionnaires that were later cross-referenced with the local weather. They found that climate-related factors like temperature, sunlight, wind and precipitation had no notable impact on positive mood, but that temperature, wind and sunlight did have an effect on negative mood. Increased temperature had a mostly positive effect on negative mood, while increased wind and decreased sunlight had a mostly negative effect on negative mood, though these effects varied from one individual to another. Sunlight was also found to have an effect on how tired participants said they were. The results were somewhat inconclusive, but they do point towards the need for more future research into the mood-weather link.