THE EFFECT OF WEATHER ON MOOD, PRODUCTIVITY, AND FREQUENCY OF EMOTIONAL CRISIS IN A TEMPERATE CONTINENTAL CLIMATE
THE EFFECT OF WEATHER ON MOOD, PRODUCTIVITY, AND FREQUENCY OF EMOTIONAL CRISIS IN A TEMPERATE CONTINENTAL CLIMATE
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DOI：
10.1007/bf01044907
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发表时间：
1988-01-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
BARNSTON, AG
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作者：
BARNSTON, AG
一组62名大部分是大学生的受试者在初秋的伊利诺斯州连续六周记录他们的感受和工作效率。在同一期间，监测了同一社区危机干预服务部门的每日电话频率，并由当地气象研究设施提供了附近地区的每日完整天气数据。主要调查结果如下。天气似乎影响情绪和生产力，但与所有其他控制因素的总和相比，影响程度很小。男性比女性表现出相对较强的影响。有心理问题的人通常比大学生更容易受到天气的影响。有“轻度”问题的学生及危机介入服务对象在天气不稳定、多云、温暖及潮湿时，压力较大;而在天气晴朗、干燥、凉爽及气压上升时，压力最小。危机服务客户与“严重”的问题，这两种天气类型的反应相反。这些和其他结果的意义和本研究的设计的优点和缺点进行了讨论。
A group of 62 mostly university student subjects kept structured diaries of their feelings and their productivity for six weeks in Illinois in early autumn. During the same period, daily frequency of telephone calls to a crisis intervention service in the same community was monitored, and complete daily weather data for the vicinity were provided by a local meteorological research facility. Major findings are as follows. The weather appears to influence mood and productivity, but only to a smallextent compared with the aggregate of all other controlling factors. Males show a relatively stronger effect than females. Psychologically troubled people generally appear to be more affected by weather than university students. The students and the crisis intervention service clients with “mild” problems tend to be stressed more when the weather is unstable, cloudy, warm and humid, and least stressed during sunny, dry, cool weather with rising barometric pressure. The crisis service clients with “severe” problems react oppositely to these two weather types. The meaning of these and other results and the strengths and weaknesses of this study's design are discussed.