Exercise for College Students: Effects of Yoga Dan Zumba as a Stress Management Technique

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college students; emotion-focused coping; stress; yoga; zumba

Abstract

Stress faced by college students creates challenges and tensions that can affect their health. Students who experience long-term stress are prone to have trouble sleeping at night, feeling mood swings, decreasing well-being, anxiety, and depression. Methods used by individuals to reduce the stress they experience are called stress coping. Emotion-focused coping is a strategy by controlling emotional responses to stressful situations. Yoga and Zumba are two emotion-focused coping strategies. This study aimed to compare the effect between two physical exercises on reducing stress in college students. The method used is experimental pretest-posttest control group design. The hypothesis of this research is there is a difference between Yoga and Zumba exercises on reducing stress. The subjects in this study were 18 students at the Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Sumatera Utara who had medium and high category levels of stress. Data were tested using the Mann- Whitney Test and Wilcoxon Test using the SPSS. Data analysis using the Mann-Whitney statistical test on Zumba showed a significance value of p = 0.48 (p > 0.05, df = 1), meaning Zumba exercise had no effect on reducing stress. However, the analysis on Yoga showed a significant value of p = 0.016 (p < 0.05; df = 2), meaning that there is a significant effect of Yoga exercise on reducing stress. Furthermore, it was found that the mean rank of Yoga was 4.30, while the mean rank of Zumba was 5.88, meaning that Yoga practice was more effective than Zumba in reducing the stress level of college students. Based on the results of this study, students are suggested to be able to apply yoga exercises as individual stress coping.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Suri Mutia Siregar
AU  - Rani Queen Manurung
AU  - Raymondo Elieser Purba
AU  - Sarah Hafiza
AU  - Ivana Putri
AU  - Yohanna Rekhatalia Debataraja
AU  - Muhammad Suriya Pratama
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/06/27
TI  - Exercise for College Students: Effects of Yoga Dan Zumba as a Stress Management Technique
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference of Psychology: International Conference on Indigenous Treatment and Contemporary Psychology (ICoP 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 111
EP  - 119
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-080-0_14
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-080-0_14
ID  - Siregar2023
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