INFLUENCE OF PRANAYAMA PRACTICES ON SELECTED PSYCHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AMONG UNIVERSITY MEN STUDENTS

The purpose of the study was designed to examine the effect of pranayama practices on anxiety and aggression of university men students. For the purpose of the study, thirty men students from the colleges in and around Chennai, Tamilnadu, India were selected as subjects. They were divided into two equal groups. each group consisted of the fifteen subjects. Group I underwent pranayama practices for three days per week for twelve weeks. Group II acted as control who did not undergo any special training programme apart from their regular physical education programme. The following variables namely anxiety and aggression were selected as criterion variables. All the subjects of two groups were tested on selected dependent variables by using Rainer Marten’s Sports Competition Anxiety Test Questionnaire and Smith’s Aggression Test Questionnaire respectively at prior to and immediately after the training programme. The analysis of covariance was used to analyze the significant difference, if any among the groups. The .05 level of confidence was fixed as the level of significance to test the ‘F’ ratio obtained by the analysis of covariance, which was considered as an appropriate. The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference between pranayama practices group and control group on anxiety and aggression. And also it was found that there was a significant change on anxiety and aggression due to twelve weeks of pranayama practices