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The impact of yoga on occupational stress and wellbeing: exploring practitioners' experiences.

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العنوان: The impact of yoga on occupational stress and wellbeing: exploring practitioners' experiences.
المؤلفون: Hagen I; Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway., Hagen Ø; Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, BI Norwegian Business School, Trondheim, Norway.
المصدر: Frontiers in public health [Front Public Health] 2024 Jun 05; Vol. 12, pp. 1352197. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 05 (Print Publication: 2024).
نوع المنشور: Journal Article
اللغة: English
بيانات الدورية: Publisher: Frontiers Editorial Office Country of Publication: Switzerland NLM ID: 101616579 Publication Model: eCollection Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2296-2565 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 22962565 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Front Public Health Subsets: MEDLINE
أسماء مطبوعة: Original Publication: Lausanne : Frontiers Editorial Office
مواضيع طبية MeSH: Yoga*/psychology , Occupational Stress*/psychology , Qualitative Research* , Adaptation, Psychological*, Humans ; Female ; Male ; Adult ; Middle Aged ; Young Adult ; Interviews as Topic ; Workplace/psychology
مستخلص: Background: Workplace stress is a serious problem globally. It represents a major threat to the UN's sustainability goal of good health and wellbeing (SDG 3). The purpose of this article is to explore how yoga may be a tool for increased wellbeing and stress management at work and in everyday life.
Methods: To examine how yoga can facilitate employees' wellbeing and ability to cope with stress, we performed qualitative interviews with practitioners who did yoga regularly. We focused on how yoga was experienced by each of our interviewees and what practicing yoga meant to them. Our data material consists of 13 semi-structured lifeworld interviews. The sample consisted of 10 female and 3 male in the age range of 20-55 years old. The data were analyzed through a thematic analysis.
Results: The themes identified in the thematic analysis include: (1) yoga as a tool for increased wellbeing, (2) yoga for coping with stress and dealing with challenges, (3) the role of breathing, and (4) contextual factors. While confirming other research findings, this article elaborates on aspects informants described as induced by yoga, like self-awareness, calmness, balance, mood-lifting, focus, presence, self-care, and mastery. The reported positive outcomes of yoga constituted increased wellbeing, and also facilitated the ability to cope with stress and experience less stress. Informants also emphasized that yogic breathing was a central factor in inducing wellbeing and feeling less stressed. They also expressed that contextual factors, such as time, teacher, and location, influenced how practicing yoga was experienced and made sense of.
Conclusion: The study concludes that the interviewees experienced practicing yoga as positive, by reducing their occupational stress. Moreover, yoga increased their wellbeing, as well as their ability to cope with stress. These experienced changes were especially facilitated by yogic breathing, and influenced by contextual factors.
Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
(Copyright © 2024 Hagen and Hagen.)
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فهرسة مساهمة: Keywords: occupational yoga; practitioners’ experiences; qualitative research; yoga; yoga and wellbeing; yoga for coping with stress; yogic breathing
تواريخ الأحداث: Date Created: 20240620 Date Completed: 20240620 Latest Revision: 20240621
رمز التحديث: 20240621
مُعرف محوري في PubMed: PMC11186537
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1352197
PMID: 38898894
قاعدة البيانات: MEDLINE
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تدمد:2296-2565
DOI:10.3389/fpubh.2024.1352197