| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 體育學系碩士班 === 99 === This research adopted the control group time series design and designed an eight-week Hatha Yoga course plan. It aimed to explore the effect of the introduction of Hatha Yoga on teachers’ emotional intelligence and perceived stress.
24 female teachers (aged 40.38 ± 4.39 years) of an elementary school in Taipei City were takedn as the subjects who were divided into the experimental group and the control group. We used the emotional intelligence scale and perceived stress scale as the measurement tools, and processed the data through descriptive statistics, two-way mixed design ANOVA and correlation coefficient analyses.
After our research and analysis, we found following results:
1.According to the results of the emotional intelligence data analyses before and after each single Hatha Yoga lesson in the second and the sixth week, the post-test scores of the experimental group in overall emotional intelligence and the four dimensions (optimism/ regulation of emotion, appraisal of emotion, social skills, utilization of emotion ) of emotional intelligence were all significantly higher than those before the Hatha Yoga lessons [F (1, 22 ) = 4.606~ 14.461, p < .05, ES = 0.560~ 1.942]. Also, in accordance with the results of the emotional intelligence data analyses before and after the eight-week Hatha Yoga course, the post-test scores of the experimental group in overall emotional intelligence and the four dimensions (optimism/ regulation of emotion, appraisal of emotion, social skills, utilization of emotion ) of emotional intelligence were all significantly higher than those before the Hatha Yoga course [F (1, 22 ) = 5.228~ 17.060, p < .05, ES = 1.014~ 1.655].
2.According to the results of the perceived stress data analyses before and after each single Hatha Yoga lesson in the second and the sixth week, the post-test scores of the experimental group in perceived stress were all significantly lower than those before the Hatha Yoga lessons [F (1, 22 ) =13.646~ 16.247, p < .05, ES = -1.239~ -1.729]. Also, in accordance with the results of the perceived stress data analyses before and after the eight-week Hatha Yoga course, the post-test scores of the experimental group in perceived stress were all significantly lower than those before the Hatha Yoga course [F (1, 22 ) =11.097, p < .05, ES = -0.756].
3.The values of the zero-order simple coefficient r of prediction of the experimental group’s emotional intelligence to their perceived stress in the first, fourth and eighth weeks are -. 468 (p> .05) , -. 734 and -. 827 (p <.05) , respectively.
The results of this research indicated that after eight weeks, the Hatha Yoga course had immediate and long-term effect in promoting overall emotional intelligence and all the four dimensions (optimism/ regulation of emotion, appraisal of emotion, social skills, utilization of emotion ) of emotional intelligence, and lowering perceived stress. Also, after more and more weeks of Hatha Yoga course, the explanatory power of emotional intelligence to perceived stress became higher and higher. In the end, this research made further suggestions on the practical application and future directions.
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