How Life Factors Catching A Cold

Host: Are there more life factors that make me more susceptible to catching a cold?

Ronald Turner: I don't think there is anything that you can control that is going to have an impact on whether or not you catch a cold. We do know that there seems to be some association between various personality traits and susceptibility to cold. So, for instance there is an investigator in Pittsburg who has described that individuals who have an introverted personality tend to have more symptoms associated with colds than other individuals do.

Similarly, individuals who have what he calls a negative, emotional style that is, I suppose for the person who thinks the glass is always half full, if you will. You know that you always things as not quite as good as they could be. Those people tend to have more cold. So, there are some connections between personality traits and colds, not so much lifestyle or behavioral traits.

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