Yoga, Working Memory, and Stress: Evaluating the Effects of a Singular Practice
Presentation Type
Event
Full Name of Faculty Mentor
Miranda Brenneman
Major
Psychology
Presentation Abstract
Yoga has been revered in India for thousands of years for its beneficence to physical, mental, and emotional growth, and only over the last couple of decades have researchers begun to describe and explain the mechanisms by which yoga may make this growth possible. Previous studies have associated practicing yoga with improved measures of cognitive performance and decreased stress/anxiety. Most research on yoga has involved longitudinal designs, but very few studies have evaluated performance related to a single yoga session. Participants will be drawn through purposive convenience sampling; students who participate in yoga classes at Coastal will be asked if they would like to participate for ten minutes before and after a regularly scheduled yoga class. This study will use a quasi-experimental, test-retest, within subjects design to measure working memory and stress via forward and backward digit span tasks, and blood pressure respectively.
Course
PSYC497
Location
Brittain Hall, Room 101
Start Date
16-4-2019 3:40 PM
End Date
16-4-2019 4:00 PM
Disciplines
Psychology
Recommended Citation
Kersey, Stacy, "Yoga, Working Memory, and Stress: Evaluating the Effects of a Singular Practice" (2019). Undergraduate Research Competition. 29.
https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/ugrc/2019/oral/29
Yoga, Working Memory, and Stress: Evaluating the Effects of a Singular Practice
Brittain Hall, Room 101
Yoga has been revered in India for thousands of years for its beneficence to physical, mental, and emotional growth, and only over the last couple of decades have researchers begun to describe and explain the mechanisms by which yoga may make this growth possible. Previous studies have associated practicing yoga with improved measures of cognitive performance and decreased stress/anxiety. Most research on yoga has involved longitudinal designs, but very few studies have evaluated performance related to a single yoga session. Participants will be drawn through purposive convenience sampling; students who participate in yoga classes at Coastal will be asked if they would like to participate for ten minutes before and after a regularly scheduled yoga class. This study will use a quasi-experimental, test-retest, within subjects design to measure working memory and stress via forward and backward digit span tasks, and blood pressure respectively.