An interdisciplinary approach to assessing the human constitution in adolescence

Abstract

Objective to estimate the efficiency of interdisciplinary approach to informative analysis of morphological constitution in young males and females in modern urboecological studies. Material and methods. The sample of modern Moscow students-psychologists aged 18-20 years, 95 males and 150 females, is used to accomplish the complex study of the constitutional status including three systems of parameters morphological (somatic: skeletal dimensions, girths, skinfolds), psychological (number of psychological tests to estimate personal anxiety, autonomic ballance, self-regulation, "Prognosis"), physiological (EEG: power and coherence in different bands and cuts) - by means of factor analysis. Results and discussion. First six constant and objective factors in the structure of total constitution of young males and females are under discussion: factor of longitudinal skeletal development, factor of transversal body development (adiposity first of all), factor of covariation of the parameters of the psychological system, factor of genetically determined physiological tone (EEG power), factors of function of the individual life experience, mediated by environment intrahemispheric and interhemispheric coherencies. Results of factor analysis are similar to both sexes with small difference, which reflects fact of more dynamic role of adipose tissue in female organism. In total 6 factors describe about 70 % variability of different systems of parameters. Conclusions. The autonomy of different systems of traits is shown, which is the base of integrity and plasticity of the organism. Such interdisciplinary studies provide the comparative integrative characteristics of morphofunctional status of various modern ethnic/territorial groups, specify the mechanisms of adaptation to concentrated anthropogenic environment, give the correct estimation of the adaptive potential of the organism in the conditions of anthropogenic pressure of high level, describe the morphophysiological base of patterns of behavior.