Role of yogic exercises in stress of hostelers

Pages: 634-636
Chitra Gupta and Alpna Agarwal (Department of Psychology, Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh)

The purpose of the present investigation was to study the effect of yogic exercises on stress of hostlers. For this purpose stress was measured with the help of student stress scale constructed by Bhatia and Pathak. The sample consisted of 30 girls (18-25 years age). The girls were selected from Rani Laxmi Bai Girls Hostel, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut. Yogic exercises were used as independent variable. Training of asana and pranayama was given them for 30 days (regularly in the morning). For analyzing the data mean, SD and t-value were calculated. T value is found significant at .01 level. On the basis of obtained results it can be said that yogic exercises reduce the level of stress.