Millions of people, 1, does smog weather affect mood?

Excerpted from Winix official website.

Spring is the best time to travel together. Of course, there must be sunny days. However, whether the smog will sweep everyone's interest will appear when it appears. Nowadays, smog has become a hot topic. Not only does it mention that it will produce sensitive emotions, but some researchers point out that smog itself will affect people's psychology. Air pollution affects happiness.

Zhu Zhuohong, an associate researcher at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found that European scholars designed a questionnaire survey to explore the impact of industrial pollution on people's mental health.

The researchers chose three industrial areas and one non-industrial area. Among them, the main pollution type of industrial zone 1 is air pollution (odor), the pollution of industrial zone 2 is mainly air pollution (smoke and particles) caused by chemicals, and industrial zone 3 is water pollution caused by textile industry. As a control group, non-industrial areas have basically no environmental pollution problems. The survey results show that in daily life, compared with the three industrial areas, residents in non-industrial areas are less troubled by noise and air pollution and have the highest satisfaction with environmental quality; In terms of mental health, residents in non-industrial areas have a higher sense of well-being, a more positive attitude towards life, and take more active coping strategies when facing pressure than residents in other three industrial areas. Usa Puweixin Tmall

Compared with three industrial zones, different types of environmental pollution have different effects on residents: compared with industrial zone 3, residents in industrial zone 1 and industrial zone 2 have more serious anxiety and depression. This probably means that compared with other types of pollution (such as water pollution in this study), air pollution is more deadly to mental health and more likely to make people suffer from mental illness. Depression caused by smoking

"Everyone has his own personal experience, and there will be times of depression and even irritability in foggy days. And after the rain, the whole person's mood is also cheerful. " Zhu Zhuohong told the China Journal of Science that in fact, ecological psychology has long recognized the existence of this problem.

Human beings exist in nature, and the whole life exists in various meteorological conditions and climatic environments. Meteorology and climate have an impact on all aspects of human beings, and of course they will also have an impact on psychological activities.

According to the theory of ecological psychology, firstly, people will feel air pollution. From the perspective of physiological factors, for most people, they mainly rely on visual and olfactory clues to feel air pollution. Visual clues include the visibility of the atmosphere, visible smoke, dust on the articles used, etc. Taste cues are mainly unpleasant smells. Of course, the perception of air pollution is also influenced by psychological factors such as stress and worry.