Impact of yoga on educational stress of college students

Abstract

This study is an attempt to find out whether yoga has any effect on the educational stress of the college students. For the purpose of this study hundred students from the NSS College, Vazhoor were selected as subjects. These students were randomly divided into experimental and control groups of fifty each. After taking the pretest for the selected variable, a twelve week training programme was given to the experimental group. The control group did not involve in any type of training. After the training programme, a post test was conducted for both groups. The data were analysed by using mean, standard deviation and t-test. The result reveals a significant decrease in educational stress of college students due to yoga