• E Polus-Szeniawska.
• Zakładu Wychowania Zdrowotnego i Higieny Szkolnej, Państwowego Zakładu Higieny w Warszawie.
• Rocz Panstw Zakl Hig. 1991 Jan 1; 42 (2): 101-6.

AbstractThe material comprised 2679 secondary school pupils (1959 girls and 1020 boys) from several Polish big cities, among whom 1281 pupils took up the old school program and 1968--the new program. The present studies were initiated in school year 1985/86 and were completed in 1989/1990. The psychophysical load of pupils was evaluated by means of a standard questionnaire comprising 77 questions grouped into problems, allowing us to determine the pupil's psychophysical load associated with school education, extra school occupations, daily time-table, situation in the class and family as well as psychic general feeling. The overall score obtained for all answers informed about the total psychophysical load. Answers to selected questions objectively specified the prevailing load-causing situations, as well as estimated the subjective feeling of the burden of these loads. The results led to the following conclusions: both prior to and after the introduction of changes in school programs (educational reform), the overall psychophysical situation of girls and boys deteriorated with years of school education. Introduction of changes in school programs has led to an increase overall psychophysical load of pupils in all classes compared, with the exception of the final class (before the examination for the secondary-school certificate). After the educational reform, the load was heaviest in the second class of secondary school. The psychophysical load of girls exceeded that of boys. Likewise, the loads associated with the objectively prevailing load-causing situations as well as those associated with subjective feeling of the burden of these loads were heavier in girls than in boys, both before and after the introduction of changes in school programs.

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