Wellness Tip 4d Changing Climate: Develop Trust for Better Health

Trust your neighbours to be healthy - The Times of India: "Eileen Bjornstrom, an assistant professor of sociology in the MU College of Arts and Science, found that people reported better health when they trusted their neighbours.

"I examined the idea of 'relative position,' or where one fits into the income distribution in their local community, as it applies to both trust of neighbours and self-rated health," said Bjornstrom.

"Because human beings engage in interpersonal comparisons in order to gauge individual characteristics, it has been suggested that a low relative position, or feeling that you are below another person financially, leads to stress and negative emotions such as shame, hostility and distrust, and that health suffers as a consequence.

"While most people aren't aware of how trust impacts them, results indicated that trust was a factor in a person's overall health," she stated. "

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