Effect of Varied Combinations of Yogic Practices on Selected Psychological Variables of School Boys of Kuwait Ageing 13-15

Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of varied combinations of yogic practices on selected psychological variables of school boys of Kuwait ageing 13-15. It was hypothesized that there would be significant differences on selected psychological variables due to the effect of varied combinations of yogic practices of school boys of Kuwait ageing 13-15. To achieve the purpose of this study a survey were conducted for 1000 students from Indian central school, Kuwait to find out the health related fitness status. Among the group 183 students were reported low fitness. In that forty male students who are low in fitness were selected for the experimental study. As per the records, their age ranged from 13 to 15 years. For the present study pre test – post test random group design which consists of experimental group and control group was used. The subjects were randomly assigned to two equal groups of twenty each. Group I underwent varied combinations of yogic practices viz, asanas, pranayama followed by imaginary meditation for a period of twelve weeks and no training were given to the control group. The data was collected before and after twelve weeks of training. The data was analyzed by applying Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) technique and the level of significance was set at 0.05.

Author Name : T.Ramesh Kumar & Dr.K.Chandrasekaran

Keywords: Asana, Pranayama, Meditation, School Boys.