Exercise accompanied with music as a determinant of the mental health of teacher trainees

Abstract

This study is an attempt to find out how exercise accompanied with music make changes on the mental health of teacher trainees. Eighty teacher trainees from Kerala University College of Teacher Education were selected as subjects for this study. They were randomly divided into experimental and control groups of forty each. A pre-test was administered for both the groups, and the experimental group underwent a training programme of exercise accompanied with music. The control group did not participate in any type of training. After twelve weeks of training, a post test was conducted for both groups. The data were analysed by using mean, standard deviation and t-test. The result shows a significant improvement in the mental health of teacher trainees due to the training programme of exercise accompanied with music.