Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Masood ul Hassan ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, IN

Abstract

The study was intended to examine the effects of yogic and physical exercise on mental health. 100 subjects in four groups viz. light exercise group, heavy exercise group, yoga performers group and control group were administered measures of mental health. All the subjects are male in the age range of 19-24 years. Data were analyzed by simple ANOVA suitable for multigroup design. Results revealed that the control group had significantly poor mental health than the exercise and yoga performing group.

Keywords

Yoga, Mental Health.

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