PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL FEATURES OF YOUNG WOMEN WITH A PENCHANT FOR ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO DEPENDENCIES Cover Image

ПСИХОФИЗИОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ ДЕВУШЕК СО СКЛОННОСТЬЮ К АЛКОГОЛЬНОЙ И ТАБАЧНОЙ ЗАВИСИМОСТЯМ
PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL FEATURES OF YOUNG WOMEN WITH A PENCHANT FOR ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO DEPENDENCIES

Author(s): Alexey Vladimirovich Lebedev, Ilinykh Katherine Ivanovna, Nina Igorevna Aizman
Subject(s): Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life
Published by: Новосибирский государственный педагогический университет
Keywords: dependence; psychophysiology; aggressiveness; stress; adaptation

Summary/Abstract: A study of psychophysiological features of the first year students prone to alcoholic and tobacco dependences was performed. The study involved 79 young women of 18-20 years stud-ying at different faculties of the university. With the help of a computer program "Evaluation of social and psychological adjustment and personal potential of students" were analyzed a num-ber of psychological parameters: psychosocial adaptation (Osnitsky AK), a tendency to various dependencies (Lozovoi GV), the level of reactive and personal anxiety (Spielberger BH, Khanin LE.), the level of stress, the state of aggression (Bass-Darky), motivation for success (T. Ehlers); psychophysiological indicators: shaped memory, attention concentration, speed of sensomotor reactions (by a simple handeye reaction to a visual stimulus in the regime of determining the reaction of the right or left hand).The results were analized by methods of variation statistics us-ing a nonparametric test for independent samples Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test. It was found that for students of the 1 course prone to alcohol and tobacco dependences is characterized by a certain psychophysiological "portrait". Women are prone to alcohol abuse characterized by high performance of emotional comfort, striving for dominance, aggressiveness and low stress concentration. Women are prone to tobacco addiction had high levels of self-acceptance, emotional comfort, image memory, aggression at low stress. Thus, the young women with a propen-sity to alcohol and tobacco dependences have psychological and physiological characteristics that must be considered in the prevention work.

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