The effect of Kapalbhati and pranayama on selected physiological and psychological variables of school going children in Jaipur

Abstract

The study undertaken was entitled as The Effect of Pranayama and Kapalbhati on Selected Psychological and Physiological variables of school going children in Jaipur. The objectives of the study were to (i) find out the effect of Kapalbhati on selected physiological variables of school going children of Jaipur. (ii) find out the effect of Kapalbhati on selected psychological variables of school going children of Jaipur. (iii) find out the effect of Pranayama on selected physiological variables of school going children of Jaipur. (iv) find out the effect of Pranayama on selected psychological variables of school going children of Jaipur. The study was delimited to the following Anulom vilom Pranayama and Kapalbhati.The study was further delimited to the student s age ranging from 13 years to 17 years. The limitations of the study were socioeconomic status as they were interviewed during taking consent for experimentation on them and consideration of larger sample size (N=50) for each experimental and control group (matched) has overcome such limitation by randomization. It was hypothesized that (1) there will be positive effect of Anulom vilom Pranayama on the physiological variables of school going children age ranging from 13 years to 17 years. (2) there will be positive effect of Kapalbhati on physiological variables of school going children age ranging from 13 years to 17 years (3) there will be positive effect of Anulom viloma Pranayama on the psychological variables of school going children age ranging from 13 years to 17 years. (4) there will be positive effect of Kapalbhati on psychological variables of school going children age ranging from 13 years to 17 years.