Table 1.
Comparison of Change Scores from Pre-class to Post-class between Yoga and PE Classes
| Measure | Yoga | PE |
T- or Z- Statistic |
p | d | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||||
| Mood – BRUMS | |||||||
| Anger | −.87 | 1.75 | −.45 | 1.80 | 2.48 | .013 | .24 |
| Confusion | −.99 | 1.75 | −.80 | 2.08 | 1.32 | .188 | .10 |
| Depression | −.52 | .97 | −.19 | 1.44 | 2.20 | .028 | .27 |
| Fatigue | −2.02 | 4.05 | −.09 | 3.93 | 2.20 | .034 | .48 |
| Tension | −.92 | 1.56 | −.63 | 1.99 | 1.51 | .132 | .16 |
| Vigor | .88 | 3.42 | .92 | 3.83 | .05 | .957 | .01 |
| Affect – PANAS-C | |||||||
| Positive affect | 1.44 | 8.25 | 1.34 | 7.89 | .08 | .939 | .01 |
| Negative affect | −1.55 | 3.76 | −1.03 | 6.50 | 1.17 | .241 | .10 |
Note: PE, physical education; BRUMS, Brunel University Mood Scale; Positive and Negative Affect Scale for Children, PANAS. Change scores calculated by subtracting pre-PE score from post-PE score. Test statistics for scores for Fatigue, Vigor, and Positive Affect computed with a two-tailed paired sample t-test; all other scores computed with Wilcoxon signed ranks test. Statistically significant when p<.05.