Effect of Regular Physical Exercise on Ego-strength of Elderly Women: A Single Group Pre-Post Study
Alok Kumar Chaurasiya
Research Scholar, School of Studies in Physical Education, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur C.G.
Abstract
The objective of this study is to assess the effect of regular physical exercise on the ego strength of elderly females. It was hypothesized that six months of supervised interventional physical exercise would significantly improve the ego strength of elderly women. To conduct the study 50 elderly women were selected purposively from the Raipur district of Chhattisgarh. Only those elderly women with scores below 06 on the ego strength component were selected purposively. The ego-strength of selected elderly women, a positive mental health inventory by Agashe and Helode (2007) was used. The six-month interventional physical exercise protocol was prepared and administered. The results revealed a decrease in the ego-strength dimension of positive mental health after 06 months of a physical exercise program. It may be due to elderly women realising their physical limitations during physical exercise programs that lead to their decreased ego-strength. It was concluded that ego strength in elderly females decreased after 06 months of an interventional physical exercise program. Therefore, a study with a longer duration is needed to authenticate this result scientifically.
Keywords: Ego-strength, Interventional physical exercise program, Elderly women,
DOI link – https://doi.org/10.69758/GIMRJ/2501I02S01V13P0029
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