A Study on Impact of Yoga on Emotional Maturity in Type-2 Diabetic Persons

The emotional maturity predicts one's ability to manage and monitor his or here emotions, to assess the emotional state of others and influence their opinions and behavior. Emotional maturity seems to be most profoundly influenced by the relationship, understanding and reactions. I have been observing that Diabetic persons have many problems at psychological level and their outlook towards life and its complications does not show positive response and also many a times they show less emotional maturity in various situations. This study is aimed to investigate the impact of Yoga on emotional maturity in Type-2 Diabetic persons together with the effect on Diabetes. Nine samples with average age of 51 years (N = 9) were selected for the study from a ten days' Yoga Shibir for Diabetes Prevention held at 'LIFE', Rajkot, organized by Saurashtra Medical & Educational Charitable Trust. Through questionnaire-method, samples have answered pre-test and post-test scale, made by Yashveer Singh and Mahesh Bhargava in English version, but I have used its Gujarati Version, Prepared by Yogesh Jogsan, Department of Psychology, Saurashtra University, Rajkot. Blood sugar level of all the subjects have been tested pathologically through 'GOD/POD Enzymatic Method' on the first and last day of the Shibir. The findings very effectively present a very good decrease in random blood sugar level (men 46.3 mg./dl), in fasting blood sugar level (mean 14.4 mg./dl.) and in post-prandial blood sugar level (mean 18.7 mg./dl). Computed t-value shows also a non-significant change, but we get noticeable improvements at the mean level which shows a need of Yoga for a long time. So, the study proposes that Yoga is great remedy to cure Diabetes as well as it is very beneficial to improve emotional maturity in the Diabetic persons.