The Effects of Yoga on the Psychological Health of College Students
Author | : Jennifer Yevgenija Cohrs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Anxiety |
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"The majority of the current literature discusses yoga as a treatment for several physical and mental conditions. However, there is very limited research on yoga's effectiveness among the college student population. This study examined the effectiveness of yoga on anxiety, and stress within an undergraduate college population. To address this goal, the researchers examined the overall effects of physical fitness, and compared that to the effects of yoga in a sample of 56 college students engaged in those yoga and fitness classes. Based on previous research, both yoga and physical fitness should affect participants by reducing anxiety and stress levels. It is also predicted that yoga would have a greater effect on those symptoms. The research design is a pretest/posttest design, as the anxiety and stress measures were administered at two separate times within a five-week period. The data analysis results showed that there was no significant effect for yoga or fitness classes across the anxiety and stress pretest/posttest measures. Additionally, there was no significance of yoga or fitness classes on anxiety after controlling for the effects of depression on anxiety. These findings, while inconsistent with the existing literature, are likely a result of limitations in the data collection process and sample, strength of treatment, as well as low statistical power. A discussion of these limitations and relevant research considerations is provided."--Page 6