Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Changes in Athletes’ Psycho-Emotional Stress in the Course of Annual Macrocycle

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2019 12 (6)
Authors
Gamzin, Mihail A.; Bazarin, Kirill P.; Savchenko, Andrey A.; Kakukhin, Alexandr D.
Contact information
Gamzin, Mihail A.: aWrestling Academy named DG Mindiashvili 88 Markovskogo Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660049, Russia; Bazarin, Kirill P.:Institute of Biophysics SB RAS, Federal Research Center “Krasnoyarsk Science Center SB RAS” 50 Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia: Federal Research Center «Krasnoyarsk Science Center» of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Research Institute for Medical Problems of the North” 3g Partizana Zheleznyaka Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660022, Russia: ORCID: 0000–0003–0597–9871; ; Savchenko, Andrey A.: Research Institute for Medical Problems in the North 3g Partizana Zheleznyaka Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660022, Russia; Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia; Kakukhin, Alexandr D.: Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology 31 Krasnoyarsky Rabochy, Krasnoyarsk, 660037, Russia
Keywords
psycho-emotional stress; electroencephalography; athletes
Abstract

Emotions significantly influence physiological processes in the athlete’s body. The level of his/her mental stress during training, competitions and recreation is obviously not the same. Taking into account the athletes’ well-known predisposition to alexithymia, there is a need to search for objective ways of the level of psycho-emotional stress assessment. Using the calculated Stress Index (SI), based on electroencephalogram indicators and level of situational anxiety as per the standard Spielberger-Hanin test, our work assesses and compares the differences in the athletes’ psycho-emotional state in various phases of the annual macrocycle. The study involved 155 athletes doing various sports. 96 athletes were males, their average age being 24.34 ± 3.54 years; 59 athletes were females with the average age of 23.12 ± 2.3 years. The control group consisted of 101 individuals who did not experience systematic high physical exertion, 53 of them being males with the average age of 23.17 ± 2.54, 48 — females with the average age of 22.12 ± 3.01 years. The athletes’ SI values are significantly different from those in the control group, as well as among themselves at various stages of the annual macrocycle. In the preparatory and transitional periods, the SI is significantly lower than in the control group. However, during the competitive period this index increases considerably. This is characteristic of a significant increase in the athletes’ psycho-emotional stress. There is a high positive correlation (r = 0.81) between the SI value and the number of points scored in the Spielberger-Hanin situational anxiety test

Pages
988–995
DOI
10.17516/1997–1370–0436
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/110430

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