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The dynamics of the psychophysiological state of navigator students on a voyage

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The dynamics of the state of health and the changes in the autonomic index and emotional state in students of the Marine University during practical training on board the training sailing vessel Nadezhda were studied. Three series of studies were performed: at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of the voyage. It was established that deterioration of the psychophysiological state began to manifest itself at the end of the third or the beginning of the fourth month of the voyage (revealing persons with a considerable disturbance of health; a decrease in the number of normotonics among the subjects; an increase in the number of vagotonics with an extremely low general index of sympathicotonia; and an increase in the coefficients of maladaptation, stress, and resistance). The emotional background throughout the voyage was positive; however, apathy and a striving for rest and solitude could manifest themselves at the initial stage of the voyage; an outburst of emotional activity (criticalness, aggressiveness, activity, inquisitiveness) in the middle of the voyage; and an inclination for daydreaming, a contemplative perception of the world, and a lack of initiative at the final stage.

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  1. Vladivostok State Medical University, Vladivostok, Russia

    L. D. Markina

  2. Nevel’skii State Marine University, Vladivostok, Russia

    L. L. Panchenko, A. E. Vizhik & A. V. Bessonova

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Original Russian Text © L.D. Markina, L.L. Panchenko, A.E. Vizhik, A.V. Bessonova, 2006, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2006, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 61–67.

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Markina, L.D., Panchenko, L.L., Vizhik, A.E. et al. The dynamics of the psychophysiological state of navigator students on a voyage. Hum Physiol 32, 684–689 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119706060107

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