- Title
- The immediate and durable effects of yoga and physical fitness exercises on stress
- Creator
- Tong, Jiajin; Qi, Xin; He, Zhonghui; Chen, Senlin; Cooley, Dean
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/178611
- Identifier
- vital:15451
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2019.1705840
- Identifier
- ISBN:0744-8481 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Objective: This study aimed to examine the effects of yoga and physical fitness exercises on stress and the underlying mechanisms. Participants: Healthy undergraduates from four yoga and four fitness classes participated in Study 1 (n = 191) and Study 2 (n = 143), respectively (in 2017 Fall). Methods: Study 1 evaluated the immediate effect (a 60-minute practice) while Study 2 evaluated the durable effect (a 12-week intervention). Results: Results showed that immediate stress reduction was more salient in the yoga group than that in the fitness group in Study 1. Yoga group had a greater increase in mindfulness, which predicted stress reduction. Similar observations were made in Study 2 showing the durable effect of yoga on stress reduction through mindfulness. Conclusions: Yoga intervention is better than fitness exercises in helping undergraduates cultivate mindfulness and reduce stress. These findings may guide future interventions in stress management in college students. © 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- Journal of American College Health Vol. 69, no. 6 (2021), p. 675-683
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright @ 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
- Subject
- 1117 Public Health and Health Services; College students; Mental health; Mindfulness; Non-medical interventions; Stress reduction
- Reviewed
- Funder
- This work was supported by the National Natural Science Fund of China [grant number 31400905]; Peking University (Standard Research of Yoga Teaching Project 2016); and Social Science Research of Ministry of Education in China [grant number 17YJA890009]. The sponsors financially supported data collection.
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