Undergraduate Psychology Student's Attitudes Toward Yoga

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Yoga and other non-traditional structured exercises are included in the curriculum of many public schools. This practice has met with resistance by some families who see yoga as a religious practice and not in accord with traditional religious practices. This study was designed to investigate attitudes of college students in a state university in the southeastern United States toward inclusion of yoga in the public school curriculum. Responses from an archival data set were used for this study. A total of 124 undergraduate students in various psychology classes completed the survey. It was found that there was no gender difference in attitudes toward yoga. While there was some directional agreement, here were no clinically significant results for the relationship between religious identification and attitudes toward yoga and political affiliation and attitudes towards yoga. There was a lack of variance in the sample and this should be taken into account for future studies.