Yoga practices for adolescents’ adjustment in relation to their gender and inhabitance difference

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Himmat J. Narke (V.P.S.P.M.S. Arts, Commerce and Science College, Kannad, Maharashtra)
Anita M. Daryanani (Psychologist, Central Public Sr. Sec. School, Udaipur, Rajasthan)

As children grow from year to year, they develop greater complexity in their behavior. During adolescence period an individual acquires certain beliefs, values and social skills which determine their level of adjustment. The concern of present research was to investigate the effect of yoga practices, gender and inhabitance on students’ adjustment. The initial sample comprised of 80 students from various sr. schools through random sampling technique. The whole sample was equally divided into two groups namely with yoga practices (n=40) and without yoga practices (n=40). These both groups constituted with equal number of students belong to urban (n=20) and rural (n=20) settings. All four subgroups were made with equal number of male (n=10) and female (1=20) students. To obtain the data Adjustment Inventory for School Students (AISS) by K.P. Sinha was administered on selected sample. As per requirement the present investigation deals with 2 x 2 x 2 factorial design and data was analyzed using 3 Way ANOVA. The obtained result revealed that yoga practices, inhabitance and gender individually as well as interaction with each other to determine level of adjustment among students.