Original Research Article
Year: 2017 | Month: January | Volume: 7 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 259-263
Quality of Life among Yoga and Gym Performers
Nida Nafees1, Fauzia Nazam2
1ICSSR Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.
2Guest Teacher, Career Planning Centre, Women’s College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.
Corresponding Author: Nida Nafees
ABSTRACT
Quality of life is the subjective experience of an individual which is evaluated taking into account the positive and negative aspects in the dimensions of life including health, social-support, achievements, personality traits, peace at micro and macro system such as family, community, national peace etc. Among the many factors that affect quality of life, the present paper aims to study the effect of performing yoga and regular exercise in gym on quality of life. The main objectives were: (1) to examine difference between the yoga and gym performers on quality of life (2) to examine the difference between the male and female yoga and gym performers on quality of life. The sample consisted of 70 yoga performers (male= 35, female= 35) and 62 (male=31, female=31) gym performers selected randomly from the various gym and yoga institutes of Aligarh. WHOQOL-BRIEF scale (WHO, 1996) was used to assess quality of life of the two groups. Two way analysis of variance was conducted to find out the difference on the basis of gender and on the basis of group. Findings of the study revealed significant difference between yoga performers and gym performers on quality of life. However on the basis of gender no difference was found between the yoga and gym performers on quality of life.
Key words: Quality of Life, Exercise, Yoga, Gym.