Does yoga shape body, mind and spiritual health and happiness: Differences between yoga practitioners and college students.
Does yoga shape body, mind and spiritual health and happiness: Differences between yoga practitioners and college students.
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DOI：
10.4103/0973-6131.72630
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发表时间：
2010-07
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Turner C
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作者：
Monk-Turner E;Turner C
评估瑜伽学员与大学生在身体、思想和精神方面的差异。对两组患者进行了心理、身体和精神方面的调查。瑜伽练习者和大学生心理健康的5项指标存在显著差异。在这五项测量中的三项中，大学生比瑜伽练习者报告的心理健康状况更好——换句话说，这种关系与预期的相反。大学生比瑜伽练习者更能保持生活的稳定，也更能体验到令人满意的人际关系。与瑜伽练习者相比，大学生也更有可能对他人宽容，无论他们是否认可他们的行为或信仰。瑜伽练习者比大学生更有可能拥有强烈的道德和健康的价值观，以及表达自己感受和考虑他人感受的能力。我们发现瑜伽练习者和大学生在超过一半的精神项目上存在差异（9项中的5项）。瑜伽练习者比大学生更有可能以适当和健康的方式表达他们的精神，认识到信仰对生活质量的积极贡献（显著性为0.07），经常进行新的体验来增强精神健康，并拥有积极的人生观。此外，我们发现瑜伽练习者更有可能报告内心的幸福。瑜伽学生与大学生在身体、心理和精神测量指标上存在显著差异。进一步的工作需要解决这些关系的复杂性。
To assess the body, mind and spirit differences between yoga students compared with college students. Mind, body and spirit survey instruments administered to the two groups. Five indicators to measure mental wellness were significantly different between yoga practitioners and college students. On three of these five measures, college students reported more mental wellness than yoga practitioners – in other words, the relationship was the inverse of what was expected. College students reported maintaining stability in their life more often than yoga practitioners as well as more often experiencing satisfying interpersonal relationships. College students were also more likely than yoga practitioners to report being tolerant of others, whether or not they approved of their behavior or beliefs. Yoga practitioners were more likely than college students to report having strong morals and healthy values as well as the ability to express their feelings and consider the feelings of others. We found differences between yoga practitioners and college students on more than half of our spirit items (five of nine). Yoga practitioners were more likely than college students to report expressing their spirituality appropriately and in healthy ways, recognizing the positive contribution faith could make to the quality of life (significant at the 0.07 level), routinely undertaking new experiences to enhance spiritual health and having a positive outlook on life. Further, we found support for the proposition that yoga practitioners were more likely to report experiencing happiness within. Significant differences between yoga and college students were found on the body, mind and spirit measurement instrument. Further work needs to address the complexities of these relationships.