The role of sensorimotor integration and inhibitory processes in the formation of health-saving behavior in adults

Vol. 32 Iss. 2 pp. 106–113 | St. Petersburg State Institute of Psychology and Social Work | ISSN: 1993-8101
2019 • Issue 2 • Volume 32Research in health psychology

PDF Download

Abstract

The article considers the role of sensorimotor integration and inhibitory processes as factors that can influence the formation of health- saving behavior in adults. As a methodological tool, the following methods are used: TOBOL, which is aimed at determining the type of attitude to the disease, and the computer program ReBos, which reveals the degree of ability of respondents to recognize the ordering of the sensory flow and the level of formation of inhibitory control. The results obtained in the course of the study indicate the ambiguity of this influence. The participants of the study choose a non-constructive type of attitude to the disease : either “repress” thoughts about the presence of their disease, “dismiss” even the obvious symptoms, or seek to find some sphere of self-realization, in particular, through immersion into work. A high level of inhibitory control indicates that adults are quite capable of suppressing a certain type of behavior, but the low ability to quick and adequate respond to changes in the environment, including the internal one, makes it difficult to reconstruct behavior towards health saving.

Keywords

health, disease, sensorimotor integration, inhibitory control, health-saving behavior

Citation

Citation — Harvard Notation

References

  1. Ananyev V. A. Vvedeniye v psikhologiyu zdorovya. Integrativnyye issledovaniya v klinicheskoy psikhologii: nauka i praktika. [Introduction to health psychology. Integrative research in clinical psychology: science and practice]. Yubileynyi sbornik nauchnykh i metodicheskikh rabot sotrudnikov kafedry klinicheskoy psikhologii Rossiyskogo Gosudarstvennogo Pedagogycheskogo Universiteta im. I.A.Gertsena [Jubilee collection of scientific and methodical works of employees of the Department of Clinical Psychology of Herzen State Pedagogical University]. St. Petersburg: "Strategiya budushchego" Publ.,2006. pp. 64-82 (in Russian).
  2. Vergunov Ye.G., Nikolaeva, N. V., Balioz, S. G., Krivoschekov E. I. Lateralnyye predpochteniya kak vozmozhnyye fenotipicheskiye prediktory reservov serdechno-sosudistoy sistemy i osobennosti sensomotornoy integratsii u alpinistov. [Lateral preferences as possible phenotypic predictors of cardiovascular system reserves and features of sensorimotor integration in climbers]. Fiziologiya cheloveka – Human Physiology, 2018, 44 (3), pp. 97-108 (in Russian)
  3. Yelnikova O. Ye., Merenkova V. S. Sootnosheniye sensomotornoy integratsii i tormoznykh protsessov s osobennotyami vnutrenney pozitsii lichnosti bolnogo. [Correlation of sensorimotor integration and inhibitory processes with the peculiarities of the internal position of the patient's personality]. Vestnik Rossiyskogo Universiteta Druzhby Narodov. Seriya: Psikhologiya i Pedagogika – Bulletin of Russian Peoples Friendship University. Series: Psychology and Pedagogy, 2019, 16 (1), pp. 39-55 (in Russian).
  4. Nikolayeva Ye. I. Predskazaniya detstva: vozmozhen li prognoz zdorovya vzroslogo, osnovannyi na izuchenii dannykh razvitiya rebenka (na primere longityudnykh issledovaniy) [Predictions of childhood: is it possible to predict the health of an adult, based on the study of child development data (on the example of longitudinal studies]. Meditsinskaya psikhologiya v Rossii – Medical psychology in Russia, 2016, 2(37) (in Russian). Available at: http://mprj.ru. (accessed 04.12.2018).
  5. Wasserman L. I., Iovlev B. V., Karpova E. B., Vuks A. Ya. (Eds.) Psikhologicheskaya diagnostika otnosheniya k bolezni: Posobiye dlya vrachey. [Psychological diagnostics of attitude to the disease: a manual for doctors]. St.Petersburg: St. Petersburg Research Psychoneurological Institute named after V. M. Bekhterev Publ, 2005. – 32 p. (In Russian).
  6. Ulumbekova G.YE. Zdravookhraneniye Rossii: 2018-2024. Chto nado delat? [Healthcare of Russia: 2018-2024. What should be done?]. Vestnik Vyschey Shkoly Organizatsii i Upravleniya Zdravookhraneniya - Bulletin of the Higher School of Organization and Management of Health Care, 2018 1 (11), pp. 9 -17 (in Russian).