Benefits of Yoga for Psychosocial Well-Being in a US High School Curriculum

Jessica J. Noggle · Naomi J. Steiner · Takuya Minami · Sat Bir S. Khalsa

224 citations0/0 files storedJournal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions Physical Activity and Health Youth Development and Social Support

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To test feasibility of yoga within a high school curriculum and evaluate preventive efficacy for psychosocial well-being. METHODS: Grade 11 or 12 students (N = 51) who registered for physical education (PE) were cluster-randomized by class 2:1 yoga:PE-as-usual. A Kripalu-based yoga program of physical postures, breathing exercises, relaxation, and meditation was taught 2 to 3 times a week for 10 weeks. Self-report questionnaires were administered to students 1 week before and after. Primary outcome measures of psychosocial well-being were Profile of Mood States-Short Form and Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children. Additional measures of psychosocial well-being included Perceived Stress Scale and Inventory of Positive Psychological Attitudes. Secondary measures of self-regulatory skills included Resilience Scale, State Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2™, and Child Acceptance Mindfulness Measure. To assess feasibility, yoga students completed a program evaluation. Analyses of covariance were conducted between groups with baseline as the covariate. RESULTS: Although PE-as-usual students showed decreases in primary outcomes, yoga students maintained or improved. Total mood disturbance improved in yoga students and worsened in controls (p = .015), as did Profile of Mood States-Short Form (POMS-SF) Tension-Anxiety subscale (p = .002). Although positive affect remained unchanged in both, negative affect significantly worsened in controls while improving in yoga students (p = .006). Secondary outcomes were not significant. Students rated yoga fairly high, despite moderate attendance. CONCLUSIONS: Implementation was feasible and students generally found it beneficial. Although not causal due to small, uneven sample size, this preliminary study suggests preventive benefits in psychosocial well-being from Kripalu yoga during high school PE. These results are consistent with previously published studies of yoga in school settings.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 224 citations exist upstream.

References

2008The Descriptive Epidemiology of Commonly Occurring Mental Disorders in the United States 2006A Review of Instruments Measuring Resilience 2010Feasibility and Preliminary Outcomes of a School-Based Mindfulness Intervention for Urban Youth 2008Elementary and Secondary Education Act 2006Stress Management: A Randomized Study of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Yoga 2005Rapid stress reduction and anxiolysis among distressed women as a consequence of a three-month intensive yoga program.2011Evaluation of the Mental Health Benefits of Yoga in a Secondary School: A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial 2009Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of Yoga in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

Cited by

2019Adolescent Mental Health Program Components and Behavior Risk Reduction: A Meta-analysis 2015Enhancing the Emotional and Social Skills of the Youth to Promote their Wellbeing and Positive Development: A Systematic Review of Universal School-based Randomized Controlled Trials 2017Mindfulness-based interventions for improving cognition, academic achievement, behavior, and socioemotional functioning of primary and secondary school students 2013Yoga as an Alternative and Complementary Approach for Stress Management

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.