The skiing holiday, also known as the winter break, was introduced during the 1930s as a means of breaking up the long spring semester and to encourage children to participate in winter sports.
The study revealed that loneliness leads to a multitude of mental health problems — especially among students, low-income earners, and people who speak languages other than Finnish as their mother tongue.
Sociologists suggest that so-called ‘knowledge workers’ in Finland — people whose job is to “think for a living” — are more likely to suffer from guilt-addled melancholy.