Pradhan Balaram, Derle Seema Godse
Division of Humanities and Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anushandhana Samsthana, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Anc Sci Life. 2012 Oct;32(2):89-92. doi: 10.4103/0257-7941.118540.
Attention is one of the components to enhance academic excellence. Traditional techniques were included in Indian schools to develop mental faculties with a view to add value to the latter.
The aim was to evaluate the effects of Gayatri mantra (GM) chanting on attention as measured by digit-letter substitution task (DLST).
School setting and self as control study design.
Subjects consisted of 60 school students included (boys = 30 and girls = 30) in the age range of 12-14 years, who were trained for chanting GM for 5 days. They were assessed on DLST immediately before and after two sessions (i) GM chanting (10 min) and (ii) Poem line (PL) chanting with an equal duration (10 min). Fifty percent of participants performed GM chanting and remaining on the PL recitation on day 6. The orders of the sessions were reversed on day 7.
Repeated measure analysis of variance with Bonferroni adjustment used.
Both sessions showed significant improvement in the total and net score of DLST. The magnitude of net score improvement was greater after GM (21.67%) compared to PL (4.85%). Female group had found better performance following GM compared to PL chanting.
Both GM and PL led to improvement in performance, as assessed by DLST. But the influence of GM had significantly higher than PL in net score of female group.
注意力是提升学业成绩的要素之一。印度学校采用传统方法来培养心智能力，以期提升学业成绩。
旨在评估唱诵伽亚特里咒语（GM）对注意力的影响，通过数字-字母替换任务（DLST）进行测量。
学校环境及自我对照研究设计。
研究对象为60名12至14岁的在校学生（男生30名，女生30名），他们接受了为期5天的GM唱诵训练。在两个阶段前后立即通过DLST对他们进行评估：（i）GM唱诵（10分钟）和（ii）等时长（10分钟）的诗句朗诵（PL）。在第6天，50%的参与者进行GM唱诵，其余的进行PL朗诵。在第7天，两个阶段的顺序颠倒。
采用经邦费罗尼校正的重复测量方差分析。
两个阶段DLST的总分和净得分均有显著提高。与PL（4.85%）相比，GM唱诵后净得分的提高幅度更大（21.67%）。与PL朗诵相比，女性组在GM唱诵后的表现更好。
如通过DLST评估，GM和PL均能提高表现。但在女性组的净得分方面，GM的影响显著高于PL。
