Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of yogic practice on selected psycho physiological variables among athletes. To achieve the purpose of the present study, thirty athletes from SDAT Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India were selected as subjects and their ages ranged from 16 to 20 years. The subjects were divided into two equal groups of fifteen each. Group I acted as Experimental Group (Yogic practices) and Group II acted as Control Group. Experimental Group was exposed to yogic practices and control group were not exposed to any experimental training other than their regular daily activities. The duration of experimental period was 12 weeks. CSAI II Inventory was administered to test the cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and self confidence. After the experimental treatment, all the thirty subjects were tested on their selected variables. To find out the difference between pre and post test of each groups, paired‘t’ test was used. In all cases 0.05 level of significance was fixed to test hypotheses. The yogic practices had shown significant improvement in all the selected psychophysiological variables among athletes after undergoing yogic practices for a period of twelve weeks.
Author Name : O.Gnana Suganthi & Dr. P.Mariayyah
Keywords: Yogic Practice, Cognitive Anxiety, Somatic Anxiety, Self Confidence, Athletes.
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