A study of the effect of gender and yoga on psychological wellbeing of middle age adults

This present research paper is an attempt to find out the effect of gender and yoga on psychological well-being of middle age adults. For this purpose, the sample was consisted of 150 male and female subjects of age range 30–40 years, who were randomly selected from yoga centers, walking parks and offices. These subjects were further consisted of three groups of yoga practitioner (yoga practitioner, 505Ss; morning walkers, 50Ss and late wakers, 50Ss). Each group of yoga practitioners was further consisted of two gender groups; they were Male 25Ss and females, 25Ss. In this way a 3x2 factorial design was employed with 25Ss in each cell. The psychological well-being of subjects was measured by PGI General Well-being scale constructed by Dr. Santosh K. Verma and Amita Verma. Obtained data were analyzed by mean, SD and ANOVA. The results indicate that yoga was found to be significantly influencing psychological well being of adult subjects and gender was not found to be effective on psychological well being of adult subjects significantly.