ROLE OF ASANAS AND CONCENTRATIVE MEDITATION IN FACILITATING THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG COASTAL AREAS STUDENTS

Mr.V.Murugesan; Dr.K.Balasubramanian

Volume : VII, Issue : V, May - 2017

ROLE OF ASANAS AND CONCENTRATIVE MEDITATION IN FACILITATING THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG COASTAL AREAS STUDENTS

Mr. V. Murugesan, Dr. K. Balasubramanian

Abstract :

The present study was to investigate the role of asanas and concentrative meditation in facilitating the emotional intelligence among coastal areas students. To achieve this purpose of the study ninety (N=90) coastal area school boys were selected from Govt Hr.Sec.School, Thondi,Ramanathapuram District Tamil Nadu state, India, during the year 2016–17. The subject’s age ranges from 13 to 15 years. The selected subject were divided into three equal groups consists of thirty subject each namely two experimental groups and control group from college students. Group I underwent asanas for twelve weeks and Group II underwent concentrative meditation and Group III act as a control group that didn‟t take part in any special exercises, other than regular activity.. The dependent variable Emotional Intelligence parameter selected for the study, it was measured by Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire .Pre–test was taken before the exercise period and post– test was measured immediately after the twelve weeks exercise period. The data collected from the three groups were statistically analyzed for significance, the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used and the F ratio was found out. The Scheffe’s test is applied as post–hoc test to determine the paired mean differences. The level of significance will be fixed at .05 level of confidence for all the cases. These results suggest that the asana practice produced grater improvement on emotional intelligence than the concentrative meditation practice and control group.