Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of biology, Department of anthropology, Leninskie Gory, 1, p.12, Moscow, 119991, Russia
Shpak Larisa Y., Ph.D., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6936-9426, e-mail: larusparus@mail.ru; Loskutova Yu.V., e-mail: ulabox86@mail.ru
This investigation is connected with morphofunctional indices and searching the original criteria for evaluation of psychoemotional adaptation of modern adolescents. The main idea of it was to study color preferences in adolescents with different anxiety in order to reveal risk groups for psycoemotional stress resistance. The data from complex morphofunctional investigation of 334 children in high school was used (173 boys and 161 girls). Examination included anthropometric program, measuring of physiological (pulse, blood pressure) and functional parameters (dynamometry). Psychological program consisted of four tests, determining the level of anxiety in pupils. For revelation of color preferences special method was developed, without projective cards, which are used in different psycognostic tests. To characterize the data the methods of variational statistics were used. Every psychological test demonstrates different level of anxiety and marks specific factors (personal, situational anxiety, restlessness, emotionality), the degree of manifestation of which is significantly different in male and female groups. Girls are characterized by increased personal anxiety; they show higher emotionality and restlessness in situations of knowledge assessment. Nevertheless, overall level of psychoemotional adaptation in pupils according to all tests shows low or normal anxiety in both sexes. Color testing revealed the significant intersexual differences in respect of certain chromatic (yellow, blue, violet) and achromatic (black) selections. Test results for color preferences show that harmonious color combinations prevail in girls, but at the same time girls are gaining more in “negative” colors. Calculated coefficients of color (red+yellow against blue+green) indicate that girls with low level of anxiety prevail in the choice of blue/green pair, girls with high level of anxiety prevail in the choice of red/yellow pair, girls with an average level of anxiety are balanced in color choice. The distribution of quantitive indexes of color in groups of boys with different anxiety showed no significant differences. Acquired weight and height growth characteristics, as the main indicators of physical development, show harmonious development of 60.2% of examined boys and only 43.08% of girls. In groups of anxious and not anxious adolescences significant differences on different systems of somatic features were observed, many low (r ? 0.57) correlation factors of anxiety in boys tend to have connection with the mesomorphy, and in girls – with the endo- and ectomorphy. As a result of our study it was shown that adolescents are characterized by sufficient adaptive potential and psychoemotional stability, although girls are more anxious, and have less harmonious physical development, than boys. Distribution of color preferences reveal significant differences of color selections within the group of adolescents with varying level of anxiety, especially in the female group. Analysis of correlations of indicators has shown some trends in the nature and direction of joint variation of physical features, manifested anxiety and color parameters.
physical development, psychoemotional adaptation, anxiety, color preferences adaptive potential
Цит.: Shpak L.Y., Loskutova Yu.V. Color preferences of adolescents in connection with the features of morphofunctional and emotional status // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2011; 4/2011; с. 81-92
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