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| Article Name : | | | RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEPRESSION AND YOGA AMONG KERALA GOVERNMENT SCHOOL FEMALE TEACHERS | | Author Name : | | | PRADEEP. C. S | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | ISRJ-113 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile | | Abstract : | | | Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behaviour, feelings and physical well-being. Depressed people may feel sad, anxious, empty, hopeless, helpless, worthless, guilty, irritable, or restless. The sample consists of 60 teachers belonging to the age group of 30-40 years working in the Govt. G.V Raja Sports VHSS Mylom, and Govt HSS Anavoor, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The 60 subjects were classified randomly into two groups namely group-A and group-B; group-A, the experimental group which underwent the yoga programme and group-B, the control group. The Beck Depression Inventory was used for data collection. The programme was implemented on the experimental group after every school session for a period of eight weeks excluding the period utilized for initial and final tests one hour for five days per week. The results of this study provide the mean of control group as 4.90 and of experimental group 3.83and the F value as 187.47 which support the hypotheses. This study is a conformation prior research and shows that yoga programme is an effective method for reducing depression. | | Keywords : | | - yoga, teacher, depression.
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