| Titel: | An investigation of the effectiveness of yoga and meditation upon anxiety and its implications for education |
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| Autor: | Moy, M |
| Mediengruppe: | dissertation |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Jahr: | 1996 |
| Band: | 57 |
| Heft: | 3 |
| Seiten: | 1018 |
| Sprache: | English; englisch |
| Abstract: | The research was designed to investigate if yoga and meditation as anxiety management programs were effective in reducing state and/or trait anxiety as measured by the Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. The study's purpose was to compare a physical technique, yoga, to a mental technique, meditation. The yoga and meditation classes were evaluated using a pretest-posttest method. The Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety was the tool for data analysis. An analysis of variance was used for statistical analysis. The sample consisted of 71 male and female volunteers recruited from yoga, meditation, and adult education courses. Prior to the start of treatment, the Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory was administered as a pretest. Upon the completion of any one of the courses, the STAI was readministered as a posttest. Three hypotheses were formulated: (1) There is no significant (.05) reduction in anxiety as compared to the control group in a two-tailed test after taking an 8 week yoga course. (2) There is no significant (.05) reduction in anxiety as compared to the meditation group in a two-tailed test after taking an 8 week meditation course. (3) There is no significant difference as compared in a two-tailed test between a yoga course's effects and a meditation course's effects on anxiety reduction. An ANOVA was used to measure the mean differences between and within groups. The results were that there were no significant differences between treatment groups and the control. While a statistically significant difference was found for the posttest state-anxiety at the.05 level of significance, a Scheffe's Post Hoc test found there to be no significance. Several factors are discussed that may have contributed to the lack of positive findings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) |