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EFFECTS OF YOGA COMBINED WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTION ON PERSONALITY AMONG SCHOOL BOYS
Sendhil, V. and Kannappan, R.
Journal Title:SCHOLARLY RECSEARCH JOURNAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
Abstract
Personality traits are long lasting personal characteristics that influence the one’s perception and
thoughts and guide actions under various conditions. The present study a
imed to investigate the
effect of yoga with psychological intervention on personality of students in the age group of 11 to
13 years. For the purpose of investigation 120 students from 6th, 7th and 8th standards from two
different schools were randomly ass
igned into experimental group (n
-
60) and control group (n
-
60). In the Pre
-
post control design, the experimental group was exposed to yoga with
psychological intervention to improve their personality traits. The control group was not exposed
to the training
for the entire period. The teachers rated the School Behavior Checklist for the
children (SCHOBL) at before, after and follow up assessments of both groups, besides collecting
socio demographic variables. The intervention focused on enhancing their person
ality traits such
as extraversion, attitude towards school work, agreeableness, emotional stability and openness of
the students. The yoga intervention was conducted for a period of six months covering a total of 40
sessions. The psychological approach inc
luded counseling sessions which were conducted one to
one and one to group for taking right decisions. The results have shown that the experimental
group had significantly high scores on personality such as extraversion, attitude towards school
work, agree
ableness, and emotional stability when compared to the control group. The
experimental group maintained the effectiveness and had significant changes in overall score of
the scale at follow
-
up assessment. The yoga combined with psychological intervention i
s effective
in increasing the personality of school going students.
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