Abstract:
This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of yoga training with emotion regulation training on students' working memory and cognitive flexibility. The research methodology was quasi-experimental designed as pretest and posttest with control and follow-up groups. Entire second-grade female high schoolers in the 2nd District of Tehran, during 2018-19 academic year, constituted study’s statistical population, of whom 54 students were chosen using cluster random sampling method, and randomly assigned into three groups. The pretest of N-back and Denis and Wenderval’s cognitive flexibility (2010) was administered for all three groups; and then the experimental groups received yoga training and emotion regulation intervention and finally posttest was implemented followed by 4-week follow-up test. Data analysis used by analysis of variance with repeated measurements exhibited that, both trainings significantly resulted in an increase in components of Different recognition and recognition time of working memory and cognitive flexibility (p≤/001). Yoga training had more effect on the component of different recognition and psychological flexibility than on emotional regulation training (p≤/001), while the impact of both two interventions had not a significant difference on the component of recognition time.
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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch, Roudehen, Iran Abstract This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of yoga training with emotion regulation training on students' working memory and cognitive flexibility.
Therefore, based on aforementioned statements, the current study dealt with comparing the effectiveness of yoga training and emotion regulation training on students' working memory and cognitive flexibility.
The methodology sought a way that, after performing the necessary steps and coordinating with education and schools, the researcher visited schools and after randomly selecting and assigning experimental and control groups and before implementing yoga training sessions and emotion regulation, the study participants were subjected to an introductory session with the aim of preliminary acquaintance with students, establishing a therapeutic relationship, building trust in the subjects, and collecting pretest data.
And emotion regulation is used by repeated measure variance analysis with follow-up test as given in the tables Discussion and Conclusion This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of yoga training with emotion regulation training on students' working memory and cognitive flexibility.
In other words, despite the high rate of decrease in duration of differences in yoga training group, this reduction or difference is not statistically significant, The effectiveness of yoga on active memory has been demonstrated in various studies, such as those of Sedigh and Niusha, 2017; Irandoust, Taheri and Thaqi al-Islam, 2014; Kauts, and Sharma, 2012; Lantrip, Isquith, Koven, Welsh, andRoth, 2015, and the present study findings on the effectiveness of yoga on working memory are in line with the studies cited.