PSYCHOLOGICAL MARKERS OF THE RISK OF FORMATION OF TOBACCO DEPENDENCE IN STUDENTS OF THE EUROPEAN NORTH OF RUSSIA

Abstract

The aim of the study is to identify psychological markers of the risk of tobacco addiction among students in the European North of Russia. Methods. The study involved 137 students of state universities in Arkhangelsk (37 men and 100 women of 17-25 years of age), preliminarily selected according to a number of criteria: born in Arkhangelsk or the Arkhangelsk region, brought up in a complete, socially prosperous family, without financial and household problems that do not have chronic somatic and neurological diseases. The identification and analysis of the experience of smoking was carried out by means of retrospective self-assessment of the subjects. The psychological status of the respondents was determined by assessing the indicators of the Freiburg multifactorial personality questionnaire FPI, accentuations of temperament and character, suggestibility, frustration, irritability and resentment, adventurousness, behavioral, social, professional, economic, political activity and social destructiveness. For statistical data processing, the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney method and Fisher's F-test were used. Results. The condition for the selection of potential markers of the risk of smoking was the presence of extremely high or extremely low values ​​of psychological status indicators, in the case of statistically significant differences or tendencies towards statistically significant differences (P 90%) in these indicators between the groups of smokers and non-smokers of men, as well as smokers. and non-smoking women. In the groups of men who smoke, these conditions are met by high values ​​of hyperthymia (17.3 1.61 units) and masculinity (7.6 0.59 units). In the group of women who smoke, these conditions are met by extremely high values ​​of exaltation - 21.0 1.07 units, sociability - 8.6 0.94 units. and behavioral activity - 7.5 0.23 units. Conclusions. For the first time, the analysis of the manifestation of psychotype indicators among smoking and non-smoking students - representatives of the Russian population of the European North of Russia was carried out. The psychological markers of the risk of the formation of tobacco dependence in boys and girls permanently residing in the Northern Territories of the Russian Federation have been determined.