EFFECT OF AGING ON PSYCHO-MOTOR COMPONENTS IN RELATION TO PERCEIVED STRESS AMONG HEALTHY CITIZENS

Miss. Diti Roy and Mr. Anup De

Abstract

Purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of aging on psycho motor components and its relationship with perceived stress among healthy citizens. Subjects were selected from North 24 Paraganas district under the state of West Bengal with 120 male sample sizes on three equal groups. Groups were divided according to age i.e. adolescent (G1=13-19 year), adult (G2=20-30 year) and old age group (G3=31-60 year). Variables were considered under psycho motor components i.e. kinesthetics perception, coordinating ability and reaction ability and other side perceived stress was considered as another parameter. Criteria of kinesthetics perception, coordinating ability, reaction ability and perceived Stress were measured as “Distance perception jump”, “Eye hand coordination test (Ball transfer)”, “Nelson hand reaction test” and “Perceived Stress Scale” respectively. Statistics were done on mean, Standard deviation, standard error of mean, correlation of coefficient and ANOVA for investigating the effect of aging on healthy citizens in which level of significance was set at 0.05 level of significance. Result of the present study shows that significant differences have been observed in case of all psycho motor components and perceived stress among adolescent, adult and old age group of healthy citizens. Insignificant positive relationship is found in respect of adolescent and adult citizens. Insignificant negative relationship is observed in case of old age citizens between perceived stress and all psycho motor components.
Keywords: Aging, Kinesthetic Perception, Coordinating ability, Reaction ability, Psycho motor, Perceived stress.