stdClass Object ( [id] => 18385 [paper_index] => 202512-01-025297 [title] => THE IMPACT OF A TWELVE-WEEK AEROBIC DANCE AND PRANAYAMA INTERVENTION ON MOTOR FITNESS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OUTCOMES AMONG FEMALE STUDENTS [description] => [author] => Saranya. S, Dr. A. Needhiraja [googlescholar] => [doi] => https://doi.org/10.36713/epra25297 [year] => 2025 [month] => December [volume] => 11 [issue] => 12 [file] => fm/jpanel/upload/2025/December/202512-01-025297.pdf [abstract] => The purpose of the study was to find out the impact of a twelve-week aerobic dance and pranayama intervention on motor fitness and psychological outcomes among female students. To fulfill the purpose of the study, sixty agriculture female students from Vanavarayar Institute of Agriculture, Manakkadavu, Divansapudhur, Pollachi, Tamilnadu, India were selected as subjects and their age ranged between 18 and 21 years. They were divided into three equal groups of each twenty subjects. It was conducted by aerobic dance training and pranayama each namely aerobic dance training group, pranayama training group and control group. The group I aerobic dance group, group II pranayama training group underwent training for three days per week for twelve weeks and group III acted as control, who did not underwent any special training programme apart from their regular day today agriculture curriculum. The following motor fitness and psychological variables namely flexibility and anxiety were selected as criterion variables. The flexibility was assessed by scores in centimeters and anxiety was assessed by scores in numbers. All the subjects of three groups were tested on selected criterion variables at prior to and immediately after the training programme as pre and post test selection. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the significant difference if any, among the groups on each selected criterion variables separately. In all the cases 0.05 level of confidence was fixed to test the significance, which was considered as appropriate. The results of the study revealed that there was a significant difference between aerobic dance training group, pranayama training group and control group on selected criterion variables such as flexibility and anxiety and there was an improvement as per selected criterion variables namely flexibility and anxiety with respect to aerobic dance training and pranayama training. [keywords] => Aerobic dance training, pranayama and psychological variables. [doj] => 2025-12-13 [hit] => [status] => [award_status] => P [orderr] => 45 [journal_id] => 1 [googlesearch_link] => [edit_on] => [is_status] => 1 [journalname] => EPRA International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (IJMR) [short_code] => IJMR [eissn] => 2455-3662 (Online) [pissn] => - -- [home_page_wrapper] => images/products_image/11.IJMR.png ) Error fetching PDF file.