Högskolan i Skövde

his.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • apa-cv
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Does weather affect mental well-being neurologically?
University of Skövde, School of Bioscience.
2018 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 15 credits / 22,5 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Research on well-being is in its infancy and the term lacks a clear definition, yet it is an increasingly popular matter. The neurology underlying well-being is important in such research in order to understand what brain mechanisms are correlated with mental health. Even though objective measures such as brain imaging are increasingly used assessments in well-being and neuroscience studies, self-reports are widely used. Articles viewing such research often state that self-reports could be biased because the subjects may be affected by the weather the day of the self-report. No further explanations are however provided as to why or how those individuals would be affected by the weather, or by which weather conditions. The aim of this thesis is thus to find neurological explanations for how weather can affect well-being. Constituents of well-being will be reviewed together with brain bases of mental health in an attempt to find neural correlations of weather and well-being. How humans are affected by the weather is a limited research area and the findings are diverse on all aspects but the solar influence over the brain and mind. Man-made light was however found to be a substitute for the effect of sunlight on the brain. No strong relationship between weather and well-being were found based on existing literature. No significant neural correlations between mental well-being and different weather conditions was found either. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018. , p. 44
Keywords [en]
well-being, mental health, neuroscience, weather, sunlight, meteorological impact, solar influence, neural correlates
National Category
Medical and Health Sciences Neurosciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-16021OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-16021DiVA, id: diva2:1235895
Subject / course
Cognitive Neuroscience
Educational program
Psychological Coach
Supervisors
Examiners
Available from: 2018-07-30 Created: 2018-07-29 Last updated: 2018-07-30Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(456 kB)325 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 456 kBChecksum SHA-512
3fa8e29ac5918072e50b26a53c8cd7a913c5b9e767d7e130a1b30aa44b7636994425062279c8ae8d418afb88e8d2b8c1d24c0a6df16763a9f88a1765be3b7c7e
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Saldjoughi Tivander, Victoria
By organisation
School of Bioscience
Medical and Health SciencesNeurosciences

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 325 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 1142 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • apa-cv
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf