A Model of Relationships between Different Systems of Characters and the Adaptation Potential of the Body in Early Adulthood

Abstract

Relationships of the adaptation potential with sets of somatic, functional, and dermatoglyphic parameters; personality traits; and polymorphisms of certain genes (FTO, DAT1, and VDR) were studied using data from anthropological examination and psychological testing of 655 healthy students aged 17–25 years from various higher education schools. The study employed two methods that allow premorbid diagnosis of the functional (physical) condition and adaptation and are recommended for large-scale preventive examinations in adults. The methods address the functional status according to Pirogova et al. and the adaptation potential according to Bayevsky et al. An original model of relationships between different sets of traits (somatic, functional, dermatoglyphic, and personality traits) and the adaptive potential in early adulthood was proposed on the basis of significant canonical correlations and Pearson’s contingency coefficients with due regards to the effects that the gene polymorphisms exert on the formation of trait sets.