The above theories provide profound insights into how weather influences well-being through physiological, emotional, and cognitive pathways, revealing the complex relationship between weather conditions and individual well-being.
These theories show that weather influences well-being through interconnected physiological, emotional, and cognitive processes rooted in both basic needs and evolutionary history.
When individuals are in a non-threatening environment, they naturally produce positive emotional responses. These responses further influence attention, physiological reactions, and behavior, thereby enhancing well-being (6).
Evolutionary psychology explains that humans are naturally inclined to feel positive in safe, non-threatening natural environments, meaning favorable weather conditions automatically boost emotional and physiological well-being.
The affective events theory suggests that an individual’s emotional state is often directly influenced by life events, with weather, as an inescapable external variable in daily life, typically representing the “atmospheric conditions” of daily living.
Environmental psychology offers a key framework for understanding how weather—through factors like temperature, sunlight, precipitation, and air quality—affects emotional and cognitive well-being, but inconsistent findings across studies show that these effects depend not only on objective weather conditions but also on individual physiological, psychological, and social differences.
Social Environment and Mental Health
A person's social environment, including relationships, social support, socioeconomic factors, and exposure to conflict or abuse, strongly shapes mental health, with healthy connections promoting resilience and coping, while harmful relationships increases the risk of stress, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse.
School Environment and Mental Health
Students' learning environment significantly influences mental health, with things such as a sense of belonging, safety, and strong school support systems improving well-being, while bullying, inadequate instructional support, and poor teaching training or academic structure can contribute to negative mental health outcomes.
Work Environment and Mental Health
Because people spend over half of their waking hours at work, the work environment–including factors like high demands, stress, bullying, low support, lack of control, and feeling undervalued–plays a major role in increasing the risk of mental health issues such as depression and anxiety.
Home Environment
The home environment, such as physical conditions of the home, community factors, and exposures such as crime, climate, pollution, toxins, environmental racism, and poverty significantly shapes mental health by influencing stress levels, safety, and overall psychological well-being.
Familiarity:
Unfamiliar or new or changing situations can sometimes trigger anxiety. However, when an environment has positive associations, connections and uplifting moods can be created.
Culture and values:
Sometimes, when cultures or values are not shared between people, one can feel isolated and even depressed. But sometimes, this differences can also make one more aware and accepting.
People:
Negative types of communication, arguments, and people who cause negative feelings to an individual can cause stress. However, people who are trusted or deemed as "safe" bring a feeling of calmness.
Sensory:
Anything that can be perceived through the senses has the ability to impact how one feels.
Aesthetics:
Clutter can induce stress, while tidy areas can calm. Meaningful colors and objects can also improve mood.
Nursing professionals are facing with severe sleep problems during the covid 19 pandemic time. Nurses were asked to work in an environment that had a more increased level of risk than ever before. Depression and anxiety from the workplace could affect the confidence of healthcare workers in themselves as well as general trust in the healthcare system. This will lead to their turnover intention which may undermine the efforts of the governments to control the COVID-19 pandemic. The rising concern may change the working schedules of healthcare workers, offering more occupational healthcare support.
List of Health Practices
Singh, G. (2020, December 17). Changes in work culture and workplace due to COVID19 crisis. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/htjx5
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mental environment
Chapter 12 SELF-EXPRESSION & THE MENTAL ENVIRONMENT
you can sit and be totally involved with your own mind and be totally uninvolved with everything around you, unaware of forces that are influencing you-forces that are helpful for you and forces that are not helpful for you. This is a profound disadvantage! This is why people are having problems. There is not a problem with reality, but there is a great problem with interpretation and self-absorption. At the very beginning of true learning, then, each person must become aware of their self-absorption-how much they are involved with their own mind and how little they are involved in life. Often it can seem very upsetting or disappointing and even insulting when you find out that you are actually experiencing very little of life and thinking a great deal.
When people begin to practice inner listening, the first thing they encounter is all these terrible things, these thoughts they could never think. "God, I had this terrible thought! Only crazy people think thoughts like this!" Or they have terrible images. "Oh, God! I am the source of these images! I must be an awful maniac!" Your thoughts reflect what you see outside, the best and the worst, the most loving and the most hateful. But your Knowledge is beyond all of it and you are not apart from God.
nightmares
The world, like your mind, can be a terrifying place to be. Its appearances are frightening and threatening, and it is in chaos with great, insurmountable problems-just like your mind.
The two reciprocal conjugate artificial realities:
When you listen, you will hear things that come from beyond the web itself. You will realize, in time, that your thoughts and your thinking are no more than a web that you are caught in-a web of your own design, a web that you have designed with others and that everyone is designing and reinforcing constantly. But the web is transparent. You can see through it, you can hear through it and you can feel through it. But you must become very still to do so.
http://www.newmessage.org/wiki/Mental_Environment
cf. "virtual reality"
When you begin to listen inside of yourself, you hear the chaos of your own thinking and begin to feel your discomfort. If you are patient and observe these things without running from them, you will pass through them because they cannot keep you from what lies beyond. What keeps people from being free is not their external circumstances. It is their own mind and their own thoughts. They are prisoners to their thoughts. They cannot stop watching their thoughts. It is as if you were watching a movie on a screen and you could never tear yourself away. The screen then becomes ever more real to you, for you have no contrast. You have no experience to remind you that it is just a movie you are watching. As a result, it has greater and greater impact upon you, and you are become a more captive audience with every moment. These things which make you suffer, cause you pain and drive your behavior are only thoughts. They are vaporous things. They have no substance. But for you to look beyond, you must not be afraid of what lies beyond them, for what lies beyond them is a wellspring of tremendous love. What lies beyond them are your true Teachers.