Factor model of foreign students’ adaptation to the climate and geographic conditions of Volgograd region

Abstract

Abstract The article deals with the body adaptation of foreign students from warm countries to the sharply continental climate of the Volgograd region. By adapting to the new climatic and geographical conditions of study and living, there are changes in the physiological function of the life-supporting systems. On the basis of a differentiated approach to the assessment of the adaptive state of functional systems, it is possible to identify groups with “poor adaptation of functional systems”, with “stress of functional systems by adaptation” and with “satisfactory adaptation of functional systems”. The factor structure of adaptation has been determined, including: the hormonal factor, the oxygen transport cascade factor, the vegetative supply factor, the respiratory homeostasis factor, the acid-base and gas composition factor. Imbalance and inadequacy in the activity of life-supporting systems, strengthening the central contour of cardiac activity regulation, changes in peripheral blood, hormonal status are criteria for an unfavorable course of adaptation processes in the body. Functional adaptation of the body of foreign students is influenced by the factors of a new climatic and geographic environment and educational activities features.