Influence of sports culture for the development of wellness of tribal women

Joint Event on 31^st Euro Congress on Psychiatrists and Psychologists & 25^th International Conference on Neurology & Neurophysiology

April 05-06, 2021 | Webinar

Asish Paul

Jadavpur University, India

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Neurol Disord

Abstract :

Statement:“Wellness is an active process through which people become aware of, and make choices toward, a more successful existence.” --National Wellness Institute. Culture is an integrated system of learned behaviour patterns which are characteristic of the members of a society and which is not a result of biological inheritance.The social culture with regular physical activity contributes to the potential developmental status with optimum health and better quality of livelihood. Exercises comprisedof movement and different games have some positive benefits to the wellbeing of human being. Purpose: The purpose of the study was to find out the influence of a 12 week (from December to February) sports culture programme on the wellbeing of middle-aged tribal women. Methodology: The randomized control trial methods were used.45 tribal women aged between 20-40yearsfrom one village of Purulia district, were considered as experimental group and another 25 tribal women of same age range from another village of Purulia were considered as the control group. The distance of these two villages were 10 km. having same climate, socioeconomic status and infrastructural facilities. The subjects underwent training for six day in a week for 1 hour daily. The sports culture programme included walking, running, stretching, joint mobility exercises, calisthenics, playing volleyball, badminton, Yogasana, etc. There were lecture session about personal health and hygiene, diet and nutrition, importance of exercise etc. The wellbeing status was measured through the five dimensions of total wellness, such as physical wellbeing, mental wellbeing, social wellbeing, emotional wellbeing and spiritual wellbeingby the questionnaire.The pre and post-tests were conducted on the subjects to collect the data on the variables of the study. Findings and Conclusions: The statistical calculation shows that significant development occurred only in case of spiritual wellbeing with moderate development in case of other factors of wellness,but no significant changes occurred in case of the control group, although slight development occurred. It was concluded that the sports culture comprising of regular physical exercises, playing different sports and some theoretical informative classes has positive beneficial effects upon the total wellness in case of the tribal women. Key- words: Culture, Sports Culture, Fitness, heart rate, blood pressure, blood glucose Acknowledgement: Project about“Research support to faculty members”, RUSA 2.0, no.R-11/718/19, dated: 26.6.19 of Govt. of India

Biography :

Asish Paul was born on 10 November, 1968, in Shyamnagar, West Bengal, India. He graduated in Physics Honours from Ramakrishna Mission, Rahara, West Bengal, became Bachelors in Physical Education from Jadavpur University and then completed his M. P. Ed, becoming first class first and Gold medalist, and Ph. D. from Kalyani University, West Bengal. He has also completed the course of Post-Graduate Diploma in Sports Management from Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM), Kolkata. He ranked first in the 1st School Service Commission (SSC) Examination in southern region of West Bengal in 2000. He remained the District Officer of Physical Education and youth Welfare of Bankura District in West Bengal for tenure of seven years (1999-2007). Later, he joined as Assistant Professor in Physical Education in SIPEW, Hastings house, situated in Alipur, West Bengal. After a long course from 2007 till 2012, he joined as the Assistant Professor in Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal. He is presently serving as an Associate Professor of Jadavpur University. He was a College Athletics Champion and represented University Football team of Jadavpur University. He has also played 1st Division Kolkata Football League and represented District Champion Football team. He is an AFC C-licensed Football coach as well as a National Athletic Official. His area of Specialization in Research is different areas of Social Science related with Sports Management. He has special interest in Biomechanics, Sports training and Community Service. He is an excellent Football defender, sprinter, long-jumper and an aspiring coach and researcher.