Just when you think that the relationship between birthdays and personalities is hocus-pocus or better left in astrology, a new study says that there could be some scientific truth to it.
A group of Hungarian researchers from Semmelweiss University reveals that there may be a correlation between your general mood personality and the season you're born in.
To come up with such result, they worked with more than 350 students of the university and looked into their birth dates, season during their birth, and their personality traits now they are already adults.
Upon analysis of the results, they found out that those who are born during spring are more than likely to have a more cheerful or brighter disposition and temperament than adults who were born in autumn; they have a higher chance of becoming depressed.
Summer babies, meanwhile, tend to develop mood swings than adults born in other seasons. Babies who were born during winter can become easily irritable.
According to researchers, this very interesting relationship may have something to do with the effects of the season to certain biochemical structures such as neurotransmitters. These include serotonin and dopamine, both of which are associated with a person's mood. Someone who has adequate level of serotonin is naturally calm, for example.
Nevertheless, the researchers believe that they need to do more work in order to establish the connection properly including the extent of the relationship. Many factors can affect temperament such as level of physical activity and diet.
One of the things they have to do is to conduct a long-term follow-up to see any mood changes as these participants age. They are also planning to check if certain genes play a role between mood personalities and birth seasons.
Meanwhile, in an interview with the Huffington post, Oxford neuroscience lecturer Sreeram Ramagopalan, who also worked on a similar study, mentioned that the results may have been more likely because of chance considering the small sample size and that vitamin D levels at the time when their mothers were pregnant, may play a key role.
