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Effect of Pilates Exercises, Yogic Practices and Combined Pilates Exercises and Yogic Practices on Selected Psychological variables among College Female Students

. K. Aruna and Dr. I. John Parthiban


Abstract

The present study was designed to find out the effect of Pilates exercises, yogic practices and combined Pilates exercises and yogic practices on selected psychological variables among college female students. For this purpose sixty(N=60) college female students studying various affiliated colleges to Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore,  Tamilnadu India were selected randomly as subjects. The age of the subjects were ranged between 18-21 years. The subjects were assigned at random into four groups of fifteen each (n=15) namely, Pilates exercises, yogic practices, combined Pilates exercises and yogic practices and control group.  Group-I underwent Pilates Exercises, Group-II underwent yogic practices, Group-III underwent combined Pilates exercises and yogic practices and Group-IV acted as control.  The duration of the training period for all the three experimental groups was restricted to twelve weeks and the number of sessions per week was confined to three in a week. For combined Pilates exercises and yogic practices the training period was restricted to alternative weeks for twelve weeks. Anxiety was selected as dependent variable and it was assessed by SCAT Questionnaire. All the subjects were tested prior to and immediately after the training for the entire selected variable. The data obtained from the experimental groups before and after the experimental period were statistically analyzed with Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Whenever the ‘F’ ratio for adjusted post test means was found to be significant, the Scheffe’s Post hoc test was applied to determine the paired mean differences. The level of confidence was fixed at 0.05 level for all the cases. The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference was found among all the experimental groups namely Pilates exercises, yogic practices, combined Pilates exercises and yogic practices groups had significantly increase in Anxiety.  Further the results of the study showed that combined Pilate’s exercises and yogic practices group was found to be better than the Pilate’s exercises group and yogic practices group in Anxiety.

 

Keywords: Pilates Exercises, Yogic Practices, Combined Pilates Exercises and Yogic Practices, Anxiety

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