Features of cardiovascular system functioning under emotional stress in dependence of maskuline-feminine personality traits

The peculiarities of the adaptive reaction formation among people in dependence of masculine-feminine personality traits in condition of the emotional stress were explored. 87 healthy volunteers (male and female) were examined in the situation of the psychoemotional tension. It was detected that emotional stress triggered the adequate adaptive response among women with prevailing feminine and androgynous personal traits, accompanied by the activation of the sympathetic department of the regulation of the cardio-vascular system, mild increase of the index of functional changes. Tension of the mechanisms of cardio-vascular activity was found among men and women with pronounced masculine personal features. The excessive activation of sympathetic regulation of cardiovascular system which was accompanied by increase in the index of regulatory system activity by 2.5 times was noted among men with prevalence of androgynous properties of the personality. It has been proved that psychoemotional stress contributes to excessive tension and/or overstrain of cardiovascular activation mechanisms, accompanied by the retain or increase of the index of the functional changes, the index of regulatory system activity after termination of stressor action among men with pronounced masculine and, especially, androgynous personal traits. The functional change index, the strain index, the indicator of the activity of regulatory systems remained the same or increased among volunteers with these personality traits.