Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of selected yogic exercises on psychological variable namely Anxiety of undergraduate female students. The secondary purpose of the study was to improve the psychological level of undergraduate students. To resolve the purpose of the study 40 undergraduate female students were randomly selected from Govt. Girls Degree College, Kota, Saharanpur. The age of the subjects was ranged between 17-22 years. The selected subject were randomly divided into two groups i.e. 20 as experimental group and 20 as control group. Experimental group underwent yogic exercises training for a period of 12 weeks. Control group were not engaged in any training programme except their daily routine work. The psychological variable namely anxiety was tested trough DASS inventory. After assessment of pre-test the experimental treatment of selected yogic exercises was conducted for experimental group for 12 weeks and no training to control group. After the completion of 12 weeks specified training programme the post-test (DASS inventory) was conducted. The ‘t’ test was used to find out the significant difference between the pre-test and post-test means of both control and experimental group. The result revealed that there was significant effect of selected yogic exercises training on anxiety level of undergraduate female students. Practice of selected yogic exercises programme was also helpful to decrease anxiety level of undergraduate female students.

Keywords: Yogic, Anxiety, Asana and Pranayama.