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Effect of Yoga on Perceived Stress Level of College Students

Author: Hukum Chand Saini, Dr. Shatrughan Singh and Vandana Rathore

Abstract:

Stress among college students can be overwhelming and can affect many areas of a student's life and their families adversely. This study investigated the effect of Yoga on perceived stress level of college going students. Students experience greater stress during their study. Perceived stress measures how stressful a person is over a particular period of time. In this research study the sample of the study was 70 college students were selected with simple random sampling technique of Kasturi Devi College, Chaksu, Jaipur, Rajasthan aged between 17- years to 20-years including male and female. Randomly they divide into two groups i.e. experimental group (n=35) and control group (n=35).Assessment tools used in this study were Perceived stress scale-14(PSS-14) and Stress Symptoms scale to judge the stress level of students. As the design of the study is the pre-test and post-test experimental design. So the data is taken as pre-data using these tools before yogic intervention. The experimental group subjects received yogic interventions for one month for 30 minutes approx daily and the control group received no intervention. Assessment repeated after intervention and data is taken as post-data. The statistical analysis with t-test was employed to find out the significance of difference between pre and post scores and results showed that there was a significant decrement in stress level in the experimental group but no improvement in control group. Findings indicate that practice of yoga having positive impact on stress level of the college students.