[Psychophysical stress among students of secondary schools during the years of education].

A group of students attended in successive classes of secondary schools were examined in the school-years 1984/85--1987/88. The studied material comprised 165 students (116 girls and 42 boys) beginning education in the first classes. In second classes were 161 students, in third--160 students and in four classes--149 students. The psychophysical stress of the students was assessed by a standardized 77 questions grouped so that it was possible to assess the psychophysical strain connected with school-education, work outside school, day timetable, situation in the class and in the family and physical well-being. The sum of the points obtained in the answers provided information about the general psychophysical stress the answers to certain questions described objectively the stressful situations and the personal experiencing of the troublesomeness++ of them. It was found that with longer time spent in school psychophysical situation of girls and boys was deteriorating because the psychophysical stress from classes to classes was increasing. The psychophysical stress of students in compared classes differed for both sexes. It was greater in girls in successive classes. The objective stressful situations and the personal experiencing of this stress increased among girls from year to year. The psychophysical stress connected with objective situation deteriorated in the fourth classes among boys, nevertheless the subjective experiencing of this stress was raised to its highest value. The final examination (diploma from a European gymnasium) determined a great emotional stress of students, especially for boys.