Effect of six week yogic practice on selected psychological variables among college going female student

Abstract

Yoga is a traditional method of meditation developed by the saints of ancient India. Yoga in Daily Life is a system of practice consisting of eight levels of development in the areas of physical, mental, social and spiritual health. When the body is physically healthy, the mind is clear, focused and stress is under control. Keeping this factor in mind, effect of six weeks yogic practice was conducted on college going female students to study its effects on stress and anxiety. The subjects were equally assigned into two equal groups by using random sampling procedure i.e. one is experimental group and one is control group. The experimental Group A was administered yogic practice and control Group B was given no training. The subjects were selected from IGIPESS, University of Delhi, Vikaspuri, New Delhi. For the interpretation of the data descriptive statistics was employed in which Mean, Standard Deviation and Paired Sample ‘t’ test were computed at 0.05 level of significance . The result shows the significant effect of yogic practice on Stress and Anxiety of experimental group female students of IGIPESS, University of Delhi.