THE EFFECTS OF SELECTED YOGIC PRACTICES AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES ON NATURE AGGRESSIVE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS

Abstract

 The Study on Physiological Variables of college level students inAlagappa University College of physical education AUCPE karaikudi of Tamilnadu State. The purpose of the present study was to find the effect of yogic practice and physical exercises on Aggressive behavior variables of college level students. For this purpose, 90 students studying in various classes of Alagappa University Collegeof Physical Education in Tamilnadu students in the age group of 17 to 26 were selected using purposive random techniques. They were divided into three equal groups, each group consisted of thirty subjects, in which group -I underwent yoga practice, group II underwent training physical exercises and group-III acted as a control group who are not allowed to participate in any special training apart from their regular curricular activities. The training period for this study was 5days a week for 12 weeks. Prior and after the training period, the subjects were tested for Aggressive behavior variable. The Analysis of Covariance (Ancona) was applied to find out which group has better in performance. Whenever, F ratio for adjusted test was found to be significant for adjusted post-test means Scheffe?s test was followed, as a post-hoc test to determine which of the paired mean differ significantly. It was concluded from the results of the study that after yoga practice and Physical Exercises periods, both the training has decreed the aggressive behavior for both the experimental group. But yoga group has noticed less in aggressive nature comparing the physical exercises group. The results of the study also shown that there was a significant difference was found between yoga and Physical exercises the control groups.