New research from Hungary: confirms astrology?.. not quite…
Friday August 4, 2023..
Here’s an amazing research finding from Hungary. Winter, spring, summer, and fall babies have predictably different personalities as adults.
The emotional life of the season of a birth…
Apparently there might be a detectable association between the time of year you were born, and your personality traits as an adult.
Another interesting correlation was acquiring a mood disorder in later with being born in the winter.
Being born in a certain season may also be linked with developing a mood disorder later in life. Humans born in summer are more likely than those born in winter to have a cyclothymic personality, characterized by frequent mood swings oscillating between up and down.
How the study was conducted
The Hungarian researchers examined and inventoried the personality traits of 400 humans and matched, taking particular note with the season of the year in which they were born.
Here’s what they found:
The results also revealed a link between being born in either spring or summer and being excessively positive, when this gets way out of my hand, we call this hyperthymia. Hyperthymia is from the Greek, meaning “excessively spirited.”
My summer-born cousin Nadine is the only person I know who has hyperthymic traits of an irrepressible, sunny (yes, pun very much intended) disposition.
Those born in the winter had a higher chance of being less irritable. Fall babies were less likely to be depressives than winter babies.
Dr. Xenia Gonda, who led the research, said:
“Biochemical studies have shown that the season in which you are born has an influence on certain monoamine neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and serotonin, which is detectable even in adult life.
This led us to believe that birth season may have a longer-lasting effect.
Our work looked at over 400 subjects and matched their birth season to personality types in later life.
Basically, it seems that when you are born may increase or decrease your chance of developing certain mood disorders.
We can’t yet say anything about the mechanisms involved.
What we are now looking at is to see if there are genetic markers which are related to season of birth and mood disorder.”
Professor Eduard Vieta, Director of the Bipolar Disorders Program at the University of Barcelona, commented on the study:
“Seasons affect our mood and behavior. Even the season at our birth may influence our subsequent risk for developing certain medical conditions, including some mental disorders.
What’s new from this group of researchers is the influence of season at birth and temperament.
Temperaments are not disorders but biologically-driven behavioral and emotional trends.
Although both genetic and environmental factors are involved in one’s temperament, now we know that the season at birth plays a role too.
And the finding of “high mood” tendency (hyperthymic temperament) for those born in summer is quite intriguing.”
It’s not often that researchers discover a correlation, but have little understanding of how the two variables are correlated. They have no clue of the “mechanism involved”.. astrology? LOL… Stay kind, and Godspeed.
