Coping of stress by yoga performers and non yoga performers in tricity chandigarh

Introduction: Yoga is the most ancient action-discipline system known in the world whose exercises help people to cope with stress. Coping has been defined as the process of managing demands (external or internal) that are appraised as taxing or exceeding the resources of the person. Objectives: To study the coping of stress among yoga performers and non yoga performer in Chandigarh tricity i.e. Panchkula, Chandigarh and Mohali. Result: Overall 168 out of 200 questionnaires distributed were completely filled without missing any item. Missing items were later scored by taking an average of the collected responses. Maximum numbers of participants 25 (29.76%) were in the age group of 20-29 years and minimum in the age group of 50-59 were 11 (13.03%). Males in yoga group are 27 (32.14%) and females are 57 (67.86%) and where as non yoga performers males are 37 (32.14%) and females are 47 (67.86%). Discussion: The present cross sectional study provides the overview of the coping of stress of residents of tricity i.e. Panchkula, Chandigarh and Mohali. This study was conducted with an objective to determine the coping of stress using coping inventory tool by Charles. S. Carver. Our study found that yoga performers were having moderate coping of stress as it shows there may be some other factors which influence coping of stress. Conclusions: Since no significant difference was observed in coping of stress among yoga performers and non yoga performers it is therefore recommended that larger study may be carried out by incorporating more number of study participants for a longer period of time.