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PubMed2003

[Features of psychologic adaptation and prevalence of border mental disorders among cargo vehicle drivers].

Studying features of psychic adaptation in 148 cargo transport drivers, the authors revealed high risk of boundary psychic disorders. Occupational research defined emotional and informational load characteristic for drivers and leading to exhaustion of adaptation and compensatory mechanisms. Factor dispersion analysis helped to determine leading role of occupational length of service--risk factor and indicator of psychic dysadaptation.

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PubMed2006

Autonomic and psychological adaptations in Olympic rowers.

AIM: Power spectral analysis of heart rate variability has been used to assess the time course of neurovegetative adaptations to training. This study was undertaken: 1) to evaluate whether and which indicator(s) of autonomic cardiac regulation and psychophysical stress can identify successful athletes during a training season culminating with the Olympic Games and 2) to evaluate the feasibility of a quasi-on-line assessment of autonomic cardiac regulation from training field, by a telematic approach. METHODS: This study was conducted on the group of male athletes composing the Italian national team of rowing (n=34), in the season preceding the 2004 Olympic Games. Complete results are from 18 subjects (age 25.3+/-0.5 years), who were selected to participate to the Athens' Olympic games. Athletes were studied while partially detrained, at mid-training season and close to the games. The RR interval was obtained through a miniature transtelephonic-ECG recorder in the supine and standing posture, thus allowing the evaluation of cardiovascular responses to a sympathetic challenge. Data were downloaded through a telephone line, to the referral center where RR-interval variability data were analyzed with the autoregressive method. Also, in each study sessions, athletes filled a self-administered questionnaire of stress perception and somatic symptoms (4S-Q). RESULTS: All ECG recordings were transmitted successfully by phone to the referral center. No significant difference was detected in any marker of autonomic cardiac regulation between athletes who won a medal at the Olympic Games and those who did not. However, respiratory rate was faster in medal winners (P=0.02), while the questionnaire addressing stress (4S-Q) provided greater scores in the group that did not win a medal (F=5.55, P<0.022) at mid-training season and close to the Olympic Games. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study would suggest the possibility of an early detection of psychosomatic symptoms resulting from long duration and elevated stress of preparing for top level competitions, whose better handling might identify the most successful athletes. In addition, it indicates the feasibility of a quasi-on-line assessment of autonomic cardiac adaptations to strenuous training directly from field to be possibly used for improving individual training programs, allowing athletes evaluation in their natural environment.

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PubMed1990

Child survivors of the Holocaust: psychological adaptations to survival.

This paper addresses the means by which children who survived the Holocaust made sense of their survival in later years. Inevitably, these children, now adults, have lived their lives with a series of perplexing questions and fragmented memories. The normal developmental tasks of growing up were mutilated beyond recognition by the traumas of loss and grief, danger and fear, hatred and chaos. The awesome task faced by child survivors included the reconstruction of a terrible past into a sensible present. In order to imbue life with meaning, a sense of continuous self had to be derived from the most fragile and discontinuous beginnings. The authors suggest that over a lifetime the child victim has to struggle with three fundamental questions: 1) Why me? 2) Since it happened to me, how shall I live my life? 3) In living life, what must I do with my grief and my memories? These three inextricable questions are discussed.

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PubMed1990

[Psychological adaptation of older workers to occupational conditions].

As a result of ergometric investigation of labour activity of 187 workers of mass professions (machine-operators, metal craftsmen, fitters), involved in physical labour of medium heaviness, the following age patterns in behavioral self-regulation of activity were detected in people of 20-79 years of age: reduction of the occupation in the major jobs and increase in the occupation in the auxiliary, less tense jobs, decrease in the density of work time, changing in the activity strategy, reduction of the duration of continuous work and increase of the duration of the subsequent rest, dividing of the alloted volume of work into parts. Physiological rationalization of labour of older workers based on the established patterns of their behavioral adaptation to labour is a sufficiently effective measure for labour rehabilitation and lengthening of the period of active life.

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[Psychological adaptation and work capacity during simulated weightlessness].

In two-head-down tilt studies of 7 and 8 days in duration variations in the work capacity of 24 test subjects were examined and the following stages were distinguished: habituation, stable work capacity, and unstable compensation. Among the test subjects two groups were discriminated: those with plastic and those with inert types of adaptation to a changed environment. It is concluded that the plastic-type people can better and faster adapt to head-down tilt and therefore can work more efficiently during an acute stage of adaptation to weightlessness.

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