Summer -born men are more likely to be more depression.

There may be really something for the idea of summer sadness, at least for children. A study found that men born in summer are more likely to develop depression than men born at other times of the year.

Researchers at Quanlin University of Applied Arts in British Columbia, Canada, conducted the study, an international study for adults. They found that men, but not women, are more likely to have symptoms of depression later in life if their birth occurs in summer compared to other seasons. The results indicate that mothers are exposed to important environmental risk factors that differ during the calendar year, says the authors, including levels of sunlight.

The author of the study was inspired by Michael Mokkunin to consider this topic through this type of questions that you will get in the conversation at a party.

“The initial spark of the idea of this research arose when someone asked me whether I believe in the towers. It made me wonder if it was likely that there is a biological basis for them, in terms of how the person’s birthday could be associated with physiological or mental features,” he said to Gizmodo.

Doctors have long known that the seasonal could affect our current mental health – the most example Seasonal emotional disorderA type of depression that usually appears during the winter months (the sad summer is there, though). But there was only a limited research looking into a possible link between the timing of childbirth and mental health, according to Mukkonin.

Mokkonen and his team conducted an online scan for 303 adults. Participants provided basic demographic information such as age and answered two common questionnaires to assess the level of anxiety and depression of the person. After controlling factors such as age and income, researchers found that men born in summer (and specifically people whose biological race) was more likely to report more symptoms of depression than men born at any other time. The team’s results were Published Wednesday in Plos Mental Health Journal.

These types of studies can only show a relationship between any two things (seasonal at birth and depression in this case) and do not definitely prove that birth in the summer can form the mental health of men. Researchers also admit that they only collected surveys over a short period of two months in early 2024, which means that they may not have been able to pick up “people’s differences in depression and anxiety.” While some participants came from different countries, a large percentage of university students was. It is fair to say that this is far from a comprehensive or complete study.

It is clear that more research is needed to repeat and expand in this initial discovery. There is also an unanswered question that is likely to be complicated by the reason for his birth in the summer can be worse specifically for men, but not women.

Mukonin indicated that the seasonal played a role in influencing the survival of most species. While people today are more protection than the harshest elements in the outside world than our fishermen, the changing aspects of the seasons may still be sufficient to influence us skillfully while we are developing in the womb.

“I would like to say that it may be associated with the environmental conditions of the mother during pregnancy,” Moukonin said. “Consider conditions such as temperature and sunlight – how do these conditions differ throughout the year?”

Researchers are planning to continue the investigation of how other mothers’ factors, including the mother system and hormone levels, affect the health of their subsequent children. Mokkonen also indicates that regardless of the season they were born, most people in their studies have reported at least some anxiety symptoms (66 %) and depression (84 %). In other words, while the seasons may have some effect on us, some things are unfortunately common in all areas.