Department of Educational Leadership, School of Education, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2018 Apr;39(3):210-216. doi: 10.1097/DBP.0000000000000538.
The Your Own Greatness Affirmed (YOGA) for Youth program delivers yoga to urban inner-city schools with the goal of providing practical benefits that support underserved children at high risk of behavioral and emotional problems. A 10-week YOGA for Youth program delivered 1 to 2 times per week was implemented in 3 schools in urban neighborhoods to examine the effect of the program on student stress, affect, and resilience.
Thirty children were administered the Perceived Stress Scale, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, and the Resilience Scale before and after the yoga program. After the program, informal qualitative interviews were conducted with school teachers, yoga teachers, and students to determine the overall impact of the yoga program.
The quantitative results of this study indicated that the yoga program significantly improved students stress (p < 0.05), positive affect (p < 0.05), and resilience (p < 0.001). The qualitative results indicated that students, school teachers, and yoga teachers all found the program to be beneficial for students' well-being.
Taken together, these data suggest that the YOGA for Youth program may provide students in low-income urban schools with behavioral skills that will protect against risk factors associated with the development of behavioral and emotional problems.
“自我肯定瑜伽”（YOGA）青年项目为城市内城学校提供瑜伽课程，旨在提供切实的好处，以支持处境不利、高风险的儿童，他们可能存在行为和情绪问题。在城市社区的 3 所学校实施了为期 10 周、每周 1 到 2 次的 YOGA 青年项目，以检验该项目对学生压力、情绪和适应力的影响。
30 名儿童在瑜伽项目前后接受了感知压力量表、正负面情绪量表和适应力量表的评估。项目结束后，对学校教师、瑜伽教师和学生进行了非正式的定性访谈，以确定瑜伽项目的整体影响。
本研究的定量结果表明，瑜伽项目显著改善了学生的压力（p<0.05）、积极情绪（p<0.05）和适应力（p<0.001）。定性结果表明，学生、学校教师和瑜伽教师都认为该项目对学生的福祉有益。
综上所述，这些数据表明，“自我肯定瑜伽”青年项目可能为低收入城市学校的学生提供行为技能，以预防与行为和情绪问题发展相关的风险因素。
