Effects of Yogic Practices on Physical Physiological and Psychological Variables among School Students

Abstract :
The purpose of the present study was to find out the effect of Yoga practices on Physical, physiological and Psychological variables of school students. For this purpose, 38 subjects from the residential school studying higher secondary class were selected as subjects and they were divided in to two equal groups with 19 each as experimental and control group. Both the group undergone usual physical training in the morning forty five minutes general fitness and evening one and half an hour in their choice in playing different games and apart from the routine activity the experimental group underwent selected yogasana practice daily morning 60-minute included 10 minutes of warm-up and the control group not given any special training. The training period for this study was 8 weeks in a schedule of 5 days in a week. The pre and post test were conducted prior and after the training programmen on the selected physical fitness variables of 50 meter dash, standing broad jump, situps and sit and reach, physiological variables of vital capacity, resting heart rate, breath holding time, respiratory rate, systolic pressure and diastolic pressure and psychological variables of mental health, self confidence and anxiety. The mean, standard deviation and t-value were assessed both experimental and control group separately and thereby significant level were analyzed. The significant level was fixed at 0.05 levels. The result of the study revealed that the experimental group shown the significant improvement in all the selected variables where as in control only 50 m dash and vital capacity having significant improvement and all the remaining variables are not having any significant improvement. The results revealed the effectiveness of yogasanas in physical fitness, physiological systems and psychological efficiency of school students.

Author Name(S) : K. Jayachandran

Keywords: Psycho-physiological, Auditory, Visual, and Tactile.


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