Mental Health among Yogic and Non-Yogic Practitioners

The present research investigation is aimed to make a comparative study of mental health among Yogic and Non-Yogic practitioners. It was hypothesized that Yogic practitioners would have better mental health as compared to Non-Yogic practitioners. The sample of the present investigation comprises (N=100) respondents, 50 Yogic and 50 Non-Yogic practitioners. Yogic practitioners were selected from different yogic health centres. Non-yogic practitioners were selected from different part of life. The age of the respondents were found to be ranging in the case of both groups (yogic and non-yogic group) between 18-55 years. Mental Health of individuals was assessed by a highly standardized Mental Health Inventory (MHI) which was developed by Srivastava and Banerjee (1997). For analyzing the data and obtaining the appropriate results t-test was used. Statistical analysis revealed the significant differences between Yogic and Non-Yogic practitioners. Yogic practitioners were significantly higher on all dimensions of mental health as well as on overall mental health than Non-Yogic practitioners. It clearly implies that yogic exercises play a crucial role for developing mental health. These findings have been found highly sparkling to its nature.