Hagen Ingunn, Skjelstad Solbjørg, Nayar Usha Sidana
Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
Stabilisati Counseling Service, Psychological Counseling, Yoga and Meditation Guidance, Levanger, Norway.
Front Psychol. 2021 Nov 22;12:729588. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.729588. eCollection 2021.
In this article we discuss how young people experienced a school-based yoga intervention. We pay particular attention to how yoga provides a space for young people to deal with their emotions. We base our discussion on qualitative data from young people in Norway who participated in the European research project "Hippocampus: Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing among Young People through Yoga." The qualitative results are based on experiences described by these young people in individual semi-structured interviews and in diaries or logs. Our data include nine interviews performed in the spring of 2019 with young people of Norwegian and refugee background in their late teens and early twenties. There were also 133 logs noted by the students exposed to the yoga intervention. In the qualitative interviews, young people talk about yoga and emotional management, improved sleep habits, and regulation. They also report improved ability to regulate and cope with stress. Yoga seemed especially beneficial for refugee trauma. In this article, we have chosen to focus on the utterances of young people about emotions, as those were quite dominant in our data, especially in the interview material. We have identified instances of emotional regulation, but also of emotional processes and changes of emotions, all of which were related to these young students practicing yoga. The impact of yoga on emotions illustrates the potential of yoga to improve the well-being and mental health of young people.
在本文中，我们探讨了年轻人如何体验一项以学校为基础的瑜伽干预措施。我们特别关注瑜伽如何为年轻人提供一个处理情绪的空间。我们的讨论基于来自挪威参与欧洲研究项目“海马体：通过瑜伽促进年轻人的心理健康和幸福”的年轻人的定性数据。定性结果基于这些年轻人在个人半结构化访谈以及日记或日志中所描述的经历。我们的数据包括2019年春季对年龄在十八九岁和二十出头的具有挪威和难民背景的年轻人进行的九次访谈。此外，接受瑜伽干预的学生还记录了133篇日志。在定性访谈中，年轻人谈到了瑜伽与情绪管理、改善睡眠习惯以及调节。他们还报告说调节和应对压力的能力有所提高。瑜伽似乎对难民创伤特别有益。在本文中，我们选择关注年轻人关于情绪的表述，因为这些在我们的数据中相当突出，尤其是在访谈材料中。我们识别出了情绪调节的实例，还有情绪过程和情绪变化的实例，所有这些都与这些年轻学生练习瑜伽有关。瑜伽对情绪的影响说明了瑜伽在改善年轻人的幸福感和心理健康方面的潜力。
