Contents:
- Medical Video: How Your Childhood Affects Your Love Styles
- Childhood experiences affect the shape of a person's face as an adult
- Why is that?
Medical Video: How Your Childhood Affects Your Love Styles
The characteristics and shape of a person's face are generally determined by genetic derivatives of parents. That's why you most likely look similar to one parent, whether father or mother. However, did you know that it turns out that childhood experiences also influence the shape of your face?What is the relation? Come on, look at the facts from the research below.
Childhood experiences affect the shape of a person's face as an adult
Symmetry whether or not your face as an adult can reveal many things about your childhood. This statement was made by a group of researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Their findings are then published in the journalEconomics and Human Biology. What did they actually study until they could conclude that?
The researchers examined facial shapes and other physical characteristics of 292 elderly people— they were all 83 when their facial symmetry was measured, while body symmetry was examined when he was 87 years old. This physical characteristic is examined using a special detector that observes the position and shape of the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.
After gathering information about the face shape of each participant, the researcher then collected information about the socio-economic status of childhood and middle age. The socioeconomic status of participants during childhood includes information about whether home facilities (such as the number of toilets and bedrooms) are comparable to the number of residents; and what their parents work first and how much is their income each month.
The researcher also collected data about the health conditions of each participant as a child. For example, the adequacy of nutrition, history or risk of certain diseases, to the air quality at home (is there exposure to cigarette smoke and smoke pollution).
The results found that the more symmetrical the shape of a person's face as an adult, indicates that their childhood is happy. In a sense, their nutritional status and socioeconomic status were good. This could mean that they are well nourished / well nourished, have no history of serious illness, good parenting parents, and monthly income including upper middle class.
On the other hand, groups of people who have passed through difficult and all-deficient childhoods are reported to have less symmetrical faces. The same is true for people who were once poor, but became rich in adulthood. Their face shape is also reported to be asymmetrical when compared to people whose childhood is happy, but when they are adults they are even poorer.
Why is that?
Professor Ian Deary, the senior scientist involved in the study, said that facial symmetry is one marker of developmental stability. According to experts, developmental stability is how well the body's ability to survive and adapt to external environmental stresses, so that its development is not off track.
Researchers suspect that symmetrical whether or not the shape of a person's face can be a "living witness" of a collection of stresses faced throughout his life, which then affects his physical development. Indirectly, a more symmetrical face shape can be a sign that the person has good health and prosperous socioeconomic status.
The scientists further argued that how symmetrical a person's face can be related to the risk or history of the disease, such as the risk of hypertension and premature death due to severe stress.
However, Professor Deary stressed that the results of this study could not be used as a benchmark for how childhood can guarantee the status and shape of a person's face in the future. He believes that other research is still needed to strengthen his research and find out what the causal relationship is.
