Does Gender Makes Difference in Visual Perception of Yoga Practitioners

Author: Seulgi Lee and Paran Gowda

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Abstract

The purpose of the study is to investigate and find any gender difference between male and female member yoga practitioners in Visual Perception (VP). In this study, we recruited hundred regular yoga practitioners (YP), consisting of 50 males and 50 females, with an average age of 20.8±2.81 years for males and 20.12±2.35 years for females from a Yoga university, Haridwar, India. This study employed a cross-sectional design with a single assessment of a visual perception by using VMPT4 manual. As may be seen from the findings that there is a 2.82% difference between the male and female visual perception mean values with plus or minus standard deviation values. In addition, we performed the ‘t’ test difference in the mean values with Cohen’s distance. Except for Visual closure ‘p’ value, the other four values are non-significant. There is a better Cohen’s ‘d’ values between male and female and its more in the case of spatial relationship values. We conducted a study on whether gender affects visual perception abilities in yoga practitioners. The results of this study indicated that there was no difference in visual perception abilities between male and female yoga practitioners. There is a lack of research on gender differences in visual perception with the influence of yoga. This study is original, but the small sample size is a significant limitation. Therefore, we recommend increasing the sample size and attempting cross-cultural research in future studies to ensure high reliability.

Keywords

Visual perception, yoga, gender, cognition, university students

Conclusion

The current studies suggest that there may be slight variations in visual perception and its 5 components with the practice of yoga. While gender differences in cognition and somato-sensation have been well-established, there is a lack of research on gender differences in visual perception with the influence of yoga. In vision experiments, sample sizes of participants are often small due to the large effect sizes. However, small samples are not ideal for testing gender differences. The limitation of these studies is the lack of a large sample size.

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How to cite this article

Seulgi Lee and Paran Gowda (2023). Does Gender Makes Difference in Visual Perception of Yoga Practitioners ? Biological Forum – An International Journal, 15(2): 944-947.