Assessment of adaptive body reactions to the professional and pedagogical activity in teachers of secondary schools

Abstract

The intensity of teaching work consists of intellectual workload indicators, which includes heuristic (creative) activity, processing, checking and monitoring the completion of tasks, working in conditions of time deficit and emotional stress. All this determines the functional quality of the main job, the presence of conflict situations caused by professional activity, sensory loads and low motor activity. The purpose of the study is the adaptive responsiveness to the professional and pedagogical activity in age dynamics among teachers of secondary schools. The objects of the study were female teachers of secondary schools of Karaganda city. The assessment of the working capacity by Work Ability Index, personal anxiety, blood pressure, heart rate variability, calculation of body mass index, registration of the number of steps per day, and a sociological survey were carried out. Statistical processing was carried out using the STATISTICA 10.0 software package. The analysis of the results of the study showed that teachers’ fatigue increases in age dynamics due to the presence of stressful situations during their work. Fatigue is accompanied by a high level of personal anxiety, physical inactivity and body mass index increase. Since the cardiovascular system, due to its morphofunctional features, is one of the first to respond to stressful influences, signs of tension were noted in it. Intensive work activity of teachers and the impact of various aspects of the work process (workloads, lack of time, stress, physical inactivity, etc.) can lead to an increase in fatigue, body mass index, and stress on the cardiovascular system in age dynamics.