Effect of different packages of yogic practices on selected motor fitness components physiological and psychological variables among juvenile delinquents

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of different packages of yogasanas on selected motor fitness, physiological and psychological variables among juvenile delinquents. To facilitate the study, ninety juvenile delinquents confined in different Rehabilitation Homes in Chennai were randomly selected in the age group of 14 to 17 years. The selected subject Boys only were randomly divided into three groups, namely, Iyengar Yoga group and Christina yoga group and control group consisting of 30 juveniles in each. Motor fitness variables - flexibility, muscular endurance, agility, physiological variables – vital capacity, vo2 max, cardio respiratory endurance, psychological variables – anxiety, aggression and self confidence were selected for this study. The study was formulated as a true random group design, consisting of a pre test and post test. Pre tests were conducted for all the subjects on selected motor fitness, physiological and psychological variables. The experimental groups participated in their respective yogic practices package I and package II for a period of twelve weeks. The post tests were conducted on the above said dependent variables after the experimental periods from all the three groups. The differences between the initial and final means of the selected variables were the effect of different packages of yogasanas on juvenile delinquents selected. The obtained data were subjected to statistical treatment to find out the significance in the means using ANCOVA. In all cases 0.05 level was fixed to test the hypothesis set for this study scheffe’s post hoc test was used to find out the paired mean differences. The results of this study proved that different packages of yogasanas significantly improved selected motor fitness variables, flexibility, muscular endurance, and agility; physiological variables, vital capacity, VO2 max and cardiorespiratory endurance; reduced psychological variables anxiety and aggression and improved self confidence of the juvenile delinquents.