COMPARATIVE EFFECTS OF SELECTED PRAYERS ON THE LEVEL OF SOCIAL MATURITY OF SCHOOL BOYS

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to analyze the effect of prayers on the level of social maturity of school boys. For this purpose 90 boys of Bharati Vidyapeeth High School, Dhankawadi, Pune - 43 (Maharashtra) were selected as subjects at random and their age was ranged from 15 to 18 years. Three groups were made, two experimental groups and one control group. After pre data collection experimental groups A and B underwent to actual yogic experimental treatments programme I and programme II for six days of a week for a period of ten weeks. In both yogic treatment programmes (Programme I and Programme II) the contents of prayers were same but there was discrepancy about the numbers of repetitions and also the time between two repetitions. As the repetitions were vary from programme to programme the total volume of load of a single training session is also differs from one programme to other. The group „C‟ served as control group and continued attending the school but did not participate in any kind of training programme. A post test was also conducted to all the groups subsequent to the treatment programme and post data was collected for all three groups. The criterion measure i.e. Social Maturity Scale developed by Nalini Rao was used for measuring social maturity level of school children. The result of the study indicated that there is significant differences among experimental and control groups on social maturity, but there is not significant difference between experimental group I and experimental group II in relation to social Maturity .