Attitude of male and female secondary school students towards yoga

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to compare attitude towards yoga between male and female secondary school students. The subjects were taken from Renaissance school located in Bulandshahr (U.P.). The subjects in this study were 40 (20 male and female each) of age ranged from 13 to 18 years selected randomly through purposive sampling. To analyze attitude towards yoga of the subjects Yoga attitude scale of Dr. Mahesh kumar muchhal was used. The reliability coefficient of Yoga attitude scale was 0.71 by split half method and 0.83 by Spearman brown method. The statistical technique employed for this study was mean, standard deviation and independent ‘t’ test. The level of significance was tested at 0.05 levels. As per the statistical analysis significant difference was not found in attitude towards yoga between male and female secondary school students. Therefore, the hypotheses that there will not be significant difference in attitude towards yoga between male and female secondary school students has not been rejected.