The purpose of this study is to inspect the psychological cure effect of exercise therapy which includes Taekwondo, Dan-Jeon Breathing, Yoga familiar to Korean. This program was planned to enhance woman`s mental health and psychological well-being. Fo...
The purpose of this study is to inspect the psychological cure effect of exercise therapy which includes Taekwondo, Dan-Jeon Breathing, Yoga familiar to Korean. This program was planned to enhance woman`s mental health and psychological well-being. For this purpose, We constituted experimental group(N=17) and control group(N=17). The experimental group was managed to have the exercise therapy three times a week for 8 months by a professional coach. The laboratory wireless 4 channel EEC measuring equipment (Laxtha Inc, 2001) and the Korean Version of Smith Kline Beecham` Quality of Life Scale Questionnaire(Yoon et al., 1998) were utilized. All of the subjects were conducted to have the pre and post test The EEC of Fpl and Fp2 through relative power spectrum analysis and the cognition state of Quality of Life were analyzed by the analysis of covariance. a waves and θ waves of experimental group were activated more significantly than control group, and comparatively β waves were significantly less activated. Competence, mental well-being, physical well-being, and vigor of experimental group ware enhanced more positively than control group as well. But in the factor of stability any significant difference was not found between experimental and control group. To conclude all the above, this exercise therapy has an psychological cure effect on mid-aged women`s cerebral functioning that activates α waves and θ waves and psychological well-being positively which enhances the quality of their life.