Psychopathology and Seasonal Preferences; An Aspect of Temporal Experience

Summary

Numerous writers have commented upon the relationship of time to personal identity and to death. Temporality and duration are held to be key elements in human self-awareness and existence. Since seasonal changes serve to mark off the passage of time, one's feelings about the seasons can be viewed as a special case of one's attitudes toward time more generally, and as one point of entry into the individual's inner universe of experience. Findings of the present study indicate that individuals differ in the feelings they invest in the seasonal context of their existence, and that these feelings are significantly influenced by the individual's emotional status.