IMPACT OF YOGA AND GENDER ON PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING OF AMONG ADULTS

Abstract

After the COVID-19 situation everyone is looking for methods and strategies for attaining desired satisfaction and well-being in life. Among all the stress management techniques, the Yoga is one of the best solutions for individual and community as well. Researches indicated that Yoga has ability to resolves many psychological and physical problems of mind and body. The  purpose  of present  research  was  to  study  the  effect  of  yoga  and  gender  on   the psychological well-being of  middle  age  adults. The sample for the study consisted of 210 male and female subjects belonging to medium socio-economic status. These subjects were taken from Meerut and Baghpat city in the U.P. state of India. The subjects were consisted of three groups of yoga, i.e.; yoga practitioners (70Ss), morning walkers (70Ss) and nonyoga practitioners (70Ss). Each group of yoga was consisted of two gender groups, i.e., male and female with 35 Ss in each cell. A 3x2 factorial design was employed for the accomplishment of the research. PGI General Well-being Scale devised by Verma and Verma (1989) was used for data collection. The data was collected individually after developing healthy rapport and getting written informed consent from each subject. Obtain data were analyzed by Mean, SD and ANOVA.

Results indicated that yoga and gender were found to be significantly effective on psychological wellbeing of middle age adults. The interaction effect between yoga and gender was also found to be significantly effective on psychological well-being. The existing researches on yoga validated the obtained results and indicated that mean psychological well-being scores of yogic practitioners was significantly highest as compared to other groups. The results also indicated that psychological wellbeing was higher in females than male subjects.