| Titel: | Yoga and Happiness Increasing Positive Self |
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| Autor: | isht, Garima Shukla, Aradhana |
| Mediengruppe: | journal article |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Indian Journal of Community Psychology |
| Jahr: | 2012 |
| Band: | 8 |
| Heft: | 1 |
| Seiten: | 188-198 |
| Sprache: | English |
| Abstract: | In this study an attempt was made to find out the pattern of happiness in people performing various forms of yogic exercises, age and sex. It was contended that (i) variation in yogic exercisers would cause variation in the level of experiential happiness, (ii) differentials in experiential happiness would be caused by variation in levels of chronological age,and (iii) males and females would differ in relation to the extent of their experiential happiness. Three hundred and twenty participants ranging between 15-65 years of age served as participants and they were arranged according to the requirement of 3 way factorial design with 4 types of yogic exercisers (institutionalized, at institutes, at home and seldom yogic exercisers), 4 levels of age (15- 20,30-35,45-50,60-65) and 2 sex (male and female). In order to measure the pattern of experiential happiness, the happiness scale (Shukla, 2006) was used. It was found that, (i) institutionalized participants presented more experiential happiness as compared to exercisers at institutions, at home and seldom exercisers, (ii) highest level of experiential happiness was evinced by the 45-50 years compared with 15-20 years, 30-35 years and 60-65 years participants,and (iii) males and females were almost equal in relation to their scores on experiential happiness. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved) (journal abstract) |