Are you anxious? Love can cure you

Good news for anxiety sufferers: psychologists from the German universities of Jena and Kassel have indeed discovered that love affairs can have a positive effect on personality development and the control of anxious states.

In particular, the scientists focused on neuroticism, "Neurotic people are quite anxious and insecure"explains Christine Finn, one of the authors of the research. “They have a tendency to depression, show low self-esteem and generally tend to be dissatisfied with their own lives. We have been able to show that neurotic people become more serene during a love affair, and that their personality stabilizes ”.

To find out, the researchers monitored 245 couples between the ages of 18 and 30 for nine months, interviewing participants individually every three months to analyze the degree of neurosis and sentimental satisfaction.

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