Markers of success of passing the unified state exam

North-Caucasus Federal University, Department of Biomedicine and Physiology, 355009 Stavropol, Russian Federation

^* Corresponding author: gubareva@mail.ru

Abstract

102 schoolchildren of the 9-11^th classes of secondary school No. 2 of Stavropol, without genetic pathology, were examined. The functional state of the central nervous system was determined by the method of computer chronoreflexometry; using psychological tests, we determined the level of personality (PA) and situational (SA) anxiety, as well as (and) the level of aggressiveness. It was established that in the 9-11th classes, girls and young women have a higher level of PA and SA than boys and young men (p <0.050.01). During the training the girls’ and boys’ the level of PA remains relatively constant, however, the variability of PA of 17 years-old young women is higher than of the young men. The level of SA of the girls tends to increase throughout the entire period of study in high school, while for boys it rises only the 10^th class, and decreases by the beginning of the 11^th class. For the indicators of aggression, gender differences begin to appear in the 10th class: aggressiveness index and indirect aggression in the boys’ significantly higher than the girls’ are. In the 11^th class, young men significantly increase in comparison with girls an indicator of hostility, verbal aggression and offence (p <0.05).