COMPARATIVE EFFECTS OF YOGIC AND PHYSICAL EXERCISES ON ANXIETY LEVEL AND MENTAL FATIGUE OF CHILDREN 

Dr. Surajpal Singh and Mr. Ashish Jain

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of yogic and physical exercises on anxiety level and mental fatigue of children. The subjects were 60 randomly selected male students of 7^th& 8^th classes of Swami Sharnan and Vidya Mandir Magarpur, Jhansi (U.P.). The data was collected before and after six week of experimental period. The subjects were given anxiety level and mental fatigue test before and after the six weeks of experimental period. The subjects were divided randomly in to three groups namely A, B and C each group consisted of 20 subjects. Group A underwent a programme of selected yogic exercises whereas Group A was administered programme of selected physical exercise Group C was the control Group. Both A and B Groups followed their respected programme of instruction for a period of six weeks. Training was carried out on alternate days for each Group. For Group A training was carried out on Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays and for Group B training was carried out on Thursdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Mean difference all the three Groups A, B and C were tested for significance of difference by ‘t’ test. In Group A and B the mean gains in both variables were found statistically significant at 0.05 level of significance.  In order to determine the effectiveness of two different methods i.e., yogic and physical exercises on anxiety level and mental fatigue the difference of initial and final scores were taken into account and ‘F’ test was applied and further to find out the significant difference that any training method at .05 level the LSD’s test was applied.