Stress tolerance features of children born by Caesarean section

Abstract

There is lots of contradictory information on the issue of development of children born by Caesarean section. That’s why the goal of our research was to study the stress tolerance of pre-school children who was born by Caesarean section. Using Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study, Luscher Color Test, Anxiety Test (V. Amen, M. Dorca, R. Temml), SÑhtange Test and study of anamnesis 64 people (children born by Caesarean section and in a natural way) from Saint-Petersburg took part in this experiment. After comparing the results, we’ve made some observations. We found that there is no significant difference in children born by Caesarean section and children born naturally at the physiological level: children in the both groups have the same results in resistance to hypoxia, in energy body balance and amount of infectious diseases. But there are some differences on the psychological level: children born by Caesarean section have more unstable emotional sphere with a predominance of negative emotions, lower level of aggression and anxiety. Therefore we can suppose that way of birth shapes the psychological features of stress tolerance in children.