Psychosocial Correlates and Outcomes of Yoga or Walking Among Older Adults

摘要

For older adults, it has been argued that it is more important for functional abilities and quality of life to be maintained with exercise rather than with aspects of physical fitness (Pollock, Graves, Swart, & Lowenthal, 1994). [...] a well-rounded physical fitness program that focuses on multiple components of health may be more beneficial to older populations (Engels, Drouin, Zhu, & Kazmierski, 1998). [...] an intervention among middle-aged women demonstrated that yoga participants had greater decreases in anxiety, increased subjective well-being, and enhanced mood, with a single session, compared with the dance aerobics and sedentary control groups (Netz & Lidor, 2003).