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The examination situation evokes psychoemotional and autonomic reactions with different degrees of intensity depending on the predicted grades in first-year students living under unfavorable conditions of the middle Ob’ River basin. All the examined students (residents of the middle Ob’ River basin) were found to have a high or super high level of trait and state anxiety. The unfavorable emotional state was accompanied by different degrees of the strengthening of parasympathetic effects on cardiac activity and the tension of regulatory systems that were at a maximum in students who expected a C grade. Irrespective of the predicted result, the highest levels of anxiety and increase in the stress of regulatory systems were observed in female students.
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Original Russian Text © A.N. Poborskii, M.A. Yurina, Zh.N. Lopatskaya, E.Yu. Deryagina, 2009, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 28–33.
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Poborskii, A.N., Yurina, M.A., Lopatskaya, Z.N. et al. The level of anxiety and state of autonomic regulation depending on the predicted examination grades in students living under unfavorable environmental conditions. Hum Physiol 35, 416–420 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119709040045
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