doi no.: 05-2016-44975451, DOI Link :: http://doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2019-83877468/

Gurpreet Singh¹  and  Sanjeev Kumar²

Affiliations

1 Lecturer in physical education: J&K Govt

2 Lecturer in physical education: J&K Govt

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of Yogic activities on selected psychological variables of college male students. To resolve the purpose of the study 40 college male students were randomly selected from Govt degree college RS pura. Their age ranged between 18 and 22 years. The selected subjects were randomly divided into two groups consisting of twenty each. No attempt was made to equate the groups. Experimental Group I underwent Yogic activities (YPT) for a period of 16 weeks. Group II acted as control group (CG) and were not engaged in any training programme other than their work. The subjects were free to withdraw their consent in case of feeling any discomfort during the period of their participation but there was no dropout during the study. The psychological variables namely anger, stress and anxiety were selected and anger was tested through Anger inventory, and stress and anxiety were taken though DASS inventory. Pre and post tests were conducted in all the variables. A yogic practice was given to the experimental group for a period of 16 weeks. Dependent t test was used to determine the significant difference between the treatment means. Group performing yogic activities had significantly decreased in anger, stress and anxiety whereas the control group had no significant decrease in all the variables.

Key words: yogic activities, anger, stress and anxiety.

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