EFFECT OF YOGA TRAINING ON STRESS AND ANXIETY OF UNIVERSITY LEVEL MALE PLAYERS
Volume 7-Number 2, April, 2017 May 15, 2017| Author name : | Kirti Kiran Ekka | ||||
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| Page no : | 59-62 | Volume : | 7 | Issue : | 2 |
doi no.: 05.2017-54682921; DOI Link :: http://doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2017-54682921/
Kirti Kiran Ekka1
Affiliations:
1 Assistant Director, Physical Education, Government S. V. Polytechnic College, Bhopal (M.P.)
E-mail- kritikiranekka@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
Sports is a Psycho-physical activity full of tensions, anxiety, conflict, strain, and stress .In this modern era of competitive sports, teams and individual athletes play to win. And this spirit of winning the matches and individual events causes many psychological stress teams my win or lose under psychological stress. The purpose of this study was to investigate effect of yoga training on stress and of university level male players. Twenty university level male players were randomly selected from the from the different games and sports in the Bilaspur district as the subjects for this study. To assess the effects of yoga practice on the selected psychological variables i. e. stress and anxiety, the questionnaire for stress from Ministry of Social Security, National Solidarity & Reform Institutions measures the general stress level and the questionnaire on anxiety from Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) from William W.K. Zung. A rating instrument for anxiety disorders. To find out the effect of yoga training on stress and anxiety of university level male players, mean, SD and t-ratio were computed. The significance level was set at .05 level of confidence. The results of the study reveled that Yoga training was found effective to reduce the stress and anxiety of university players belong to different games and sports.
Keywords: Yoga, Stress, Anxiety, University level players.
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