Psychophysiological features of medical students studying in the Arctic zone of the Murmansk region

• Main Authors: Pryanichnikov S. V., Egareva S. V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: LLC Center for Information and Legal Support for the Development of the Arctic 2022
• Subjects: situational and personal anxiety; well-being; activity; mood; vegetative coefficient; total deviation of the autogenic norm; students; arctic zone; Geography (General); G1-922; Arctic; Murmansk
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.24412/2658-4255-2022-2-34-43; https://doaj.org/article/0319435e58fe4442a5aa82dc725df17c

The results of a one-stage cross-sectional study of the indicators of the psychophysiological state of the body of medical students under 18 years of age and older who have been living for more than 1 year in the Murmansk region (group 1) and new arrivals from other regions of Russia who have been living locally for less than six months (group 2) are presented. The comparative assessment was carried out according to the methods of: C. D. Spielberger in the adaptation of Yu. L. Khanin (situational and personal anxiety); the stress level of Yu. V. Shcherbatykh "Comprehensive assessment of stress manifestations"; the degree of stress tolerance and social adaptation of Holmes–Ray; the degree of neuropsychiatric tension according to the integral indicator of the total deviation from the autogenic norm and the vegetative coefficient, the predominance of the influence of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system on the regulation of adaptation processes and according to the test of M. Lusher's color perception. When compared by age criterion in a group of students aged 18 and older, subjective indicators of psychophysiological state are better than in a group under 18 with an optimal level of neuropsychiatric tension. It is shown that in the group of students living in the Murmansk region for more than one year, the indicators of psychophysiological condition are lower than those of new arrivals. This is expressed by the tension of psycho-emotional and physiological systems, the dominant influence of the sympathetic nervous system on the processes of regulation and the likely breakdown of adaptive mechanisms.