Assessing impact of food on yoga practitioners in relation to some psychological correlates

Abstract

Food is a substance consisting essentially all types of nutrients used in the body of an organism to sustain growth and vital process which furnish energy and nourished the body. It is responsible for growth of body. But body requires some activity physical as well as mental for its proper growth. Yoga is one of the best techniques which comprise both kind of activities. Yoga harmonized body with mind and breath through the means of different techniques like breathing exercise and meditation. It affects personality traits also. Keeping this notion in mind, this work was done to assess the impact of types of food on emotional competence, aggression, psychological hardiness, general well being and mental health of yoga practitioners. For this, 400 samples were selected through disproportionate stratified sampling technique from Bihar and Jharkhand. The sample was divided into two equal groups-200 vegetarian and 200 non- vegetarian yoga practitioners. The samples were also divided into two subgroups-100 urban and 100 rural vegetarian and non-vegetarian yoga practitioners. newline The procured data was analyzed with suitable statistical techniques. The result indicated that vegetarian yoga practitioners have more emotional competence than non-vegetarian yoga practitioners. Urban vegetarian yoga practitioners have more emotional competence than rural vegetarian practitioners. Urban non- vegetarian yoga practitioners have more emotional competence than non- vegetarian yoga practitioners. Vegetarian yoga practitioners have less aggression than non- vegetarian yoga practitioners. Urban vegetarian yoga practitioners have high aggression than rural vegetarian yoga practitioners. Urban non- vegetarian yoga practitioners have high aggression than rural non- vegetarian yoga practitioners newline