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Alleviate examination anxiety and conserve mental health of the adolescent students: The future of the nation

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Title Alleviate examination anxiety and conserve mental health of the adolescent students: The future of the nation
 
Creator Abbasi, Nargis
Ghosh, Shilpi
 
Subject Academic performance
Human resource
Mental well-being
Test anxiety
 
Description 1081-1087
Adolescents are the potential human resource of every nation. Various determinants may influence the mental and
physical well-being of the youth. Examination anxiety is one such. It is a prevalent problem for many adolescent students;
affecting approximately 10-40 percent of all students. Yoga can act as one of the best alternative methods of treatment. It
aims at creating and preserving a proper balance between the body and the mind. 61 adolescent students, of age group 14-16
years, suffering from examination anxiety participated in this study. Examination Anxiety Scale for adolescents, developed
and standardized by the investigators, was used for assessing examination anxiety. The subjects were divided into two
groups randomly- the experimental group and the control group. The experimental group participated in the yoga
intervention program for six weeks, whereas, the control group did not participate in the same. After six weeks, both the
groups were assessed again. The result showed that the mean examination anxiety score reduced from 71.70 to 68.80 for the
experimental group and it was statistically significant at (P
 
Date 2022-11-07T09:19:17Z
2022-11-07T09:19:17Z
2022-11
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-0959 (Online); 0301-1208 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/60805
https://doi.org/10.56042/ijbb.v59i11.66948
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR,India
 
Source IJBB Vol.59(11) [November 2022]