Effect of Inverted Yoga Practices and Brain Fitness Exercises on Critical Thinking of Coastal Area School Students

Keywords

Inverted yogic practices, Brain fitness, Critical thinking, Coastal, School students

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of inverted yoga practices and brain fitness exercises on critical thinking of coastal area school students. To achieve the purpose of the present study, sixty (n = 60) coastal area school boys from Alphonsa Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Nagarcoil, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India, were selected at random as subjects and their age ranged from 14 to 17 years. The subjects were divided into four equal groups of 15 students each. Group I acted as experimental Group I (Inverted Yogic Practices), Group II acted as experimental Group II (brain Fitness exercises group), Group III acted as experimental Group III (Combined training), and Group IV acted as control Group. The requirement of the experiment procedures, testing as well as exercise schedule was explained to the subjects so as to get full cooperation of the effort required on their part and before the administration of the study. The pre-test was conducted for all the subjects on critical thinking. The duration of the experimental period was 16 weeks. After the experimental treatment, all 60 subjects were tested on critical thinking. This final test scores formed as post-test scores of the subjects. The pre-test and post-test scores were subjected to statistical analysis using dependent “t”-test and analysis of covariance to find out the significance among the mean differences. Whenever the “F” ratio for the adjusted test was found to be significant, Scheffer’s post hoc test was used. In all cases, 0.05 level of significance was fixed to test hypotheses. The combined training group had shown significant improvement in critical thinking than the inverted yoga practices, brain fitness exercises group, and control group.