Kumar P, Gupta B N, Pandya K P, Clerk S H
Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow, U.P., India.
Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 1988;61(1-2):35-8. doi: 10.1007/BF00381605.
Behavioral studies were conducted on 90 petrol pump workers to study the effect of petrol on the central and peripheral nervous systems. Sixty-four control subjects of similar age and socio-economic status were also taken for purposes of comparison. Maudsley Personality Inventory (MPI), Benton Visual Retention Test, Digit Span Test, Progressive Matrices, Digit Symbol Test and Mirror Drawing Test were used for behavioral studies. Immediate and delayed memory were found to be significantly affected in exposed workers. Intellectual capacity and psychomotor ability were also significantly affected (P less than 0.01). Psychomotor ability and visuomotor learning ability were more affected (P less than 0.05) among the exposed subjects than among the controls. However, stability and extroversion-introversion ability remained unaffected.
对90名加油站工作人员进行了行为研究，以探讨汽油对中枢神经系统和周围神经系统的影响。还选取了64名年龄和社会经济地位相近的对照对象用于比较。使用莫兹利人格问卷（MPI）、本顿视觉保持测验、数字广度测验、渐进矩阵测验、数字符号测验和镜像绘画测验进行行为研究。发现接触汽油的工人的即时记忆和延迟记忆受到显著影响。智力和心理运动能力也受到显著影响（P小于0.01）。与对照组相比，接触汽油的受试者的心理运动能力和视觉运动学习能力受到的影响更大（P小于0.05）。然而，稳定性和外向-内向能力未受影响。
