摘要：The study was to compare the effect of non-structured meditation training programme on psychological distress between males and females. For the study, subjects were selected in two stages, initially 150 subjects were selected randomly from Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and Sports Sciences comprising of 94 males and 56 females, aged ranging from 17 to 25 years studying in different courses of study. In the second phase, out of primarily selected 150 subjects, only 30 students (18 males and 12 females) were short listed for final analysis, those who have scored higher on Cornell's Medical Index Health Questionnaire (CMIHQ) were selected as subjects for the study. The result presented in Table no 1 indicates the descriptive statistics of male and female which shows that the mean of male and female is 9.06 and 7.83 in psychological distress respectively while as the S.D of male and female is 7.60 and 4.60 in psychological distress respectively &Table no. 2 depicting that there was significant difference between the psychological distress between male and female. The mean value for psychological distress is 9.06 and 7.83 respectively for male and female respectively while as the t- value is 0.498 and 0.548 for males and females respectively. Hence, it is concluded that there is a significant difference between the male and the female in psychological distress.This indicates favorable effect of non-structured meditation training programme on psychological distress between males and females. In the light of the findings, it is concluded that there is a significant effect of non-structured meditation training programme on psychological distress between males and females.
