Weather sensitivity of athletes with different levels of aggression

Abstract

The paper aims to identify the individual response to weather changes in athletes depending on the level of their aggressiveness. Materials and methods. 21-channel EEG recording was performed with the Neuron-Spectrum-4V/P electroencephalograph. The initial level of aggressiveness was measured by the Buss-Durkee hostility inventory. Results. Biometeorological, approximation and correlation analyses showed that athletes' response to non-extreme weather conditions (air velocity and temperature, atmospheric pressure, relative air humidity) exceeded that of non-athletes. The level of cerebral weather sensitivity depends on the initial level of aggressiveness. Correlations between the amplitude and power of the most frequent EEG patterns and weather changes were recorded more frequently and more intensively in persons with low aggressiveness. In more aggressive (within the normal range) subjects, adaptive weather sensitivity was found as a result of increased irritability, verbal or physical aggression. Such forms of aggression as resentment and an acute sense of guilt were not accompanied by weather sensitivity. The correlation was recorded in both athletes and untrained individuals. However, the level of initial aggression was lower in athletes compared to non-athletes. This may explain the difference in weather sensitivity between athletes and non-athletes. Conclusion. Normal weather sensitivity as a form of cerebral adaptation to ordinary weather conditions is more typical of athletes compared to untrained individuals. This phenomenon largely depends on the initial aggression level: the lower the aggressiveness, the more acute is cerebral adaptation.