The dutch psychologist Vingerhoets who gave a name to this illness, asked more than 1.800 people to find out if they have suffered a leisure sickness, but the results were surprising. Only a 3% of people said they did, but even this little number, it is a reason for him to look for a physiological explanation.
Firstly, the logical explanation for the illness we get as soon as we stop working, is that the stress hormones that help us cope with work deadlines get out of balance, and leave us open to infection. Secondly, the other less logical reason is that we are so busy during work that we don't notice that we are becoming ill until we have the chance to relax.
Another pshycologist interested in this topic, James Pennebaker, also did a study observing ill students watching a film and he found out, that the more interesting the movie was the less they coughed, and in the boring scenes they seemed to notice their sore throats and cough a lot. So, the phsycologist came to the conclusion that the less that's going around a person, the worse their symptoms are.
Finally, another logical explanation is the cabin fever. Travelling is always tiring, particulary by plane. In a plane, the recycled air is often blamed for his rate of infection plus the sitting in an endclosed space and the humidity can often cause an infection.
To sum up, I agree the most with the last explanation because I also became ill more than once after travelling to Germany by plane but I also see the point of the first one, because after school, holidays are the first time that the body can finally relax and calm down, so in my opinion, the leisure sickness must be a mix of all factors.
DICTIONARY:
- Run-up: anarse'n ràpid
-Affliction: aflicció
-Cope: fer front a
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150216-the-truth-about-holiday-illnesses
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