Features of the emotional status of schoolchildren with different profiles of lateral phenotype

Zaitseva, Olga; Klimatskaya, Liudmila; Kolodyazhnaya, Tatiana; Evert, Lidiia

Features of the emotional status of schoolchildren with different profiles of lateral phenotype

Abstract

Background: Success of school education depends on many factors, including the most important mental function of a child, namely the type of hemispheric asymmetry of the brain that determines the characteristics of perception, memory, thinking strategy and the emotional sphere. Accounting the patterns of mental functions of a child constitutes the basis for the individualization of learning processes with the focus on maintaining the health of children and adolescents. The type of the hemispheric asymmetry is determined by the lateral phenotype of the subject, which is the set of peripheral motorsensory asymmetries. Aim of the study: To evaluate emotional and personal characteristics of pupils with different lateral phenotypes. Material and methods: 227 schoolchildren (caucasians) aged 7-15 years living in the city of Krasnoyarsk. The pupils were recognized clinically as healthy and they achieved the average physical and sexual development. Their lateral phenotype was assessed by the psychomotor tests for the guiding hand, the leading leg, eye and ear. The study aimed to explore the emotional personality traits, using child personality questionnaire G.U. Eysenck adapted to the childhood age and to estimate the level of intra - extraversion and neuroticisms in points. Results: Among schoolchildren of Krasnoyarsk city, there were numerous groups of children with right lateral and mixed phenotypes in combination with extroverted personality type and emotional stability. Among the children with left lateral and symmetric phenotypes almost half of the subjects recorded introverted personality type combined with high levels of neuroticism. Conclusions: The components of a child’s personality such as introverted personality type combined with high levels of neuroticism reduce the body’s adaptive capabilities of children and dictate the need for psycho-pedagogical correction. The results of the research can be used in psychology, age physiology and pedagogic.

Keywords

level of neuroticism personality type schoolchildren lateral phenotype

Citation

Features of the emotional status of schoolchildren with different profiles of lateral phenotype / Olga Zaitseva, Liudmila Klimatskaya, Tatiana Kolodyazhnaya, Evert Lidiia / Puls Uczelni. - 2014, Vol. 8, No 2, s. 4-8