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KMID : 1148220120080040141
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Journal of Arts Psychotherapy
2012 Volume.8 No. 4 p.141 ~ p.166
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A Study on the Effects of Yoga and Dance Meditation Program to Improve the Middle-Aged Women's Various Stress
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Kim An-Deuk
Kim Han-Gon
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to demonstrate actual effects of yoga and dance meditation program upon stress felt by middle-aged women. In order to achieve the above purpose, this study conducted an experiment with total 54 middle-aged women (at age ranging from 50 to 64) residing in K city, Gyeongbuk province, Korea. These subjects were divided into two groups, such as. experiment group (28 subjects) and control group(26 subjects). Then, the experiment group was asked to participate in total 36 sessions of a yoga and dance meditation program from Sept. 28 to Dec. 17, 2010). To verify potential effects of the yoga and dance meditation program, this study used a stress inventory for repeated measurement in form of pretest, intermediate test, posttest and follow-up test. For the statistical analysis, repeated measures of ANOVA was introduced. The results are follows: First, yoga and dance meditation program were effective in improving social role performance and self-confidence of middle-aged women. Secondly, the result indicates that yoga and dance meditation program is effective in relieving middle-aged women from depression. Thirdly, yoga and dance meditation program is effective in alleviating middle-aged women from sleep disorder and anxiety. Lastly, yoga and dance meditation program is effective in improving general health and vitality of middle-aged women. Therefore, findings of this study indicate that yoga and dance meditation program is effective in alleviating middle-aged women from stress.
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KEYWORD
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Yoga, Dance meditation, Stress, Middle aged women
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