Open AccessYoga therapy for developing emotional intelligence in mid-life managers
Author(s) -
Tikhe Sham Ganpat,
H R Nagendra
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of mid-life health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.423
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 0976-7819
pISSN - 0976-7800
DOI - 10.4103/0976-7800.83267
Subject(s) - emotional intelligence , wilcoxon signed rank test , test (biology) , psychology , race (biology) , mann–whitney u test , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , sociology , gender studies , paleontology , biology
Business executives' lives have become a never-ending race against time, technology, and targets. This race creates tension, which leads to dissatisfaction and frustration and eventually manifests itself as psychological and physiological stress with mental and emotional drain. This modern lifestyle intensifies the stress leading to "excessive tension" and consequent deterioration in "executive efficiency".