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Ancient science of yogic life for academic excellence in university students
BACKGROUND: Academic excellence is essential to provide opportunities for students to work together to improve their understanding of concepts in their academic core. Academic excellence helps students to teach problem-solving and collaborative learning strategies. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3530342/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23284211 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0257-7941.103179 |
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author | Tikhe, Sham Ganpat Nagendra, H. R. Tripathi, Neeraj |
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description | BACKGROUND: Academic excellence is essential to provide opportunities for students to work together to improve their understanding of concepts in their academic core. Academic excellence helps students to teach problem-solving and collaborative learning strategies. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to assess Guna (personality traits) in students undergoing Yoga Instructor's Course (YIC). MATERIALS AND METHODS: In all, 68 YIC students with a mean age of 28.03 ± 9.38 years participated in this single group pre–post study. The Personality Inventory data were collected before (pre) and after (post) the YIC. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Means, standard deviations, Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, and Wilcoxon signed rank test were used for analyzing the data with the help of SPSS 16. RESULTS: The data analysis showed 11.33% decrease (P < 0.01) in Tamas Guna (dull personality trait), 0.68% decrease (P =0.819) in Rajas Guna (violent personality trait), and 10.34% increase (P <0.01) in Sattva Guna (balanced personality trait) scores. CONCLUSION: This study suggests that YIC can result in the improvement of Sattva Guna (balance personality trait) among students, thus paving the way for their academic excellence. |
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spelling | pubmed-35303422013-01-02 Ancient science of yogic life for academic excellence in university students Tikhe, Sham Ganpat Nagendra, H. R. Tripathi, Neeraj Anc Sci Life Original Article BACKGROUND: Academic excellence is essential to provide opportunities for students to work together to improve their understanding of concepts in their academic core. Academic excellence helps students to teach problem-solving and collaborative learning strategies. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to assess Guna (personality traits) in students undergoing Yoga Instructor's Course (YIC). MATERIALS AND METHODS: In all, 68 YIC students with a mean age of 28.03 ± 9.38 years participated in this single group pre–post study. The Personality Inventory data were collected before (pre) and after (post) the YIC. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Means, standard deviations, Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, and Wilcoxon signed rank test were used for analyzing the data with the help of SPSS 16. RESULTS: The data analysis showed 11.33% decrease (P < 0.01) in Tamas Guna (dull personality trait), 0.68% decrease (P =0.819) in Rajas Guna (violent personality trait), and 10.34% increase (P <0.01) in Sattva Guna (balanced personality trait) scores. CONCLUSION: This study suggests that YIC can result in the improvement of Sattva Guna (balance personality trait) among students, thus paving the way for their academic excellence. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3530342/ /pubmed/23284211 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0257-7941.103179 Text en Copyright: © Ancient Science of Life http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Tikhe, Sham Ganpat Nagendra, H. R. Tripathi, Neeraj Ancient science of yogic life for academic excellence in university students |
title | Ancient science of yogic life for academic excellence in university students |
title_full | Ancient science of yogic life for academic excellence in university students |
title_fullStr | Ancient science of yogic life for academic excellence in university students |
title_full_unstemmed | Ancient science of yogic life for academic excellence in university students |
title_short | Ancient science of yogic life for academic excellence in university students |
title_sort | ancient science of yogic life for academic excellence in university students |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3530342/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23284211 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0257-7941.103179 |
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