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      Hot Yoga Leads to Greater Well-being: A Six-week Experience-sampling RCT in Healthy Adults Translated title: El hot yoga produce mayor bienestar: un ensayo controlado aleatorio de seis semanas con muestreo de experiencias en adultos sanos

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          ABSTRACT

          Practicing hot yoga may bring significant psychological benefits, but it is largely unstudied. We examined the effects of hot yoga on multifaceted well-being indicators with 290 healthy yoga-naïve volunteers partaking in a six-week randomized controlled trial. Participants completed questionnaires pre- and post-intervention, and reported their emotional experiences four times per day throughout an experience-sampling study. Results revealed that the hot yoga group ( n = 137) improved their well-being from pre- to post-treatment, comparing to the wait-list control group ( n = 153). These improvements included life satisfaction, general health, mindfulness, peace of mind, and eudaimonic well-being (Δ R 2 ranging from .01 to .08)—but not flourishing, which describes major aspects of social-psychological functioning. Multilevel analyses demonstrated that momentary positive emotional experiences increased significantly throughout the trial in the yoga group only (conditional R 2 = .68), particularly when attending a yoga class (conditional R 2 = .50). Interestingly, this increase in momentary positive emotion explained the improvement in post-intervention mindfulness, peace of mind, and general health by 21%, 31%, and 11%, respectively. Finally, the benefits of hot yoga were more notable in individuals with lower levels of baseline eudaimonic well-being (conditional R 2 = .45), flourishing (conditional R 2 = .61), and mental well-being (conditional R 2 = .65), even after ruling out any possible ceiling effects. To sum up, this study demonstrated multiple psychological benefits of hot yoga and its potential to be an effective positive psychology intervention. Future research—especially considering an active control group—is warranted.

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          La práctica del hot yoga puede aportar importantes ventajas psicológicas, aunque apenas se ha estudiado. Analizamos los efectos del hot yoga sobre una gran variedad de indicadores de bienestar en una muestra de 290 voluntarios sin experiencia en yoga que tomaron parte en un ensayo controlado aleatorio de seis semanas. Los participantes contestaron cuestionarios antes y después de la intervención, dando cuenta de sus experiencias emocionales cuatro veces al día a lo largo de un estudio de muestreo de experiencias. Los resultados mostraron que el bienestar del grupo de hot yoga ( n = 137) aumentó del pretratamiento al postratamiento en comparación con el grupo de control de lista de espera ( n = 153), mejorando la satisfacción en la vida, la salud en general, la atención plena, la paz mental y el bienestar eudaimónico (Δ R 2 entre .01 y .08), aunque no en prosperidad psicosocial, que describe aspectos importantes del funcionamiento social psicológico. Los análisis multinivel desvelaron que se daba un gran aumento de las experiencias emocionales positivas momentáneas a lo largo de todo el ensayo únicamente en el grupo de yoga ( R 2 condicional = .68), sobre todo al asistir a clase de yoga ( R 2 condicional = .50). Es interesante ver que este aumento de la emoción positiva momentánea explicaba la mejora de la atención plena, la paz mental y la salud en general en un 21%, 31% y 11% respectivamente tras la intervención. Por último, los beneficios del hot yoga destacaban más en personas con menor bienestar eudaimónico base ( R 2 condicional = 45), prosperidad psicosocial ( R 2 condicional = .61) y bienestar mental ( R 2 condicional = .65), incluso tras descartar los posibles efectos techo. Resumiendo, este estudio ha demostrado los muchos efectos psicológicos del hot yoga y su potencial como eficaz intervención en psicología positiva. La investigación futura (en especial teniendo en cuenta un grupo de control activo) está justificada.

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                Journal
                Interv Psicosoc
                Interv Psicosoc
                inter
                Psychosocial Intervention
                Colegio Oficial de la Psicología de Madrid
                1132-0559
                2173-4712
                13 May 2022
                May 2022
                : 31
                : 2
                : 67-82
                Affiliations
                [a ] orgnameHong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong originalHong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR
                [b ] orgnameUniversity of Cambridge United Kingdom originalUniversity of Cambridge, United Kingdom
                [c ] orgnameBournemouth University United Kingdom originalBournemouth University, United Kingdom
                Author notes
                Correspondence: bryant-p-h.hui@ 123456polyu.edu.hk (B. P. H. Hui).

                Conflict of Interest: The authors of this article declare no conflict of interest.

                [1]

                Nota: Bryant P. H. Hui and Laurie Parma share first authorship of this article.

                Article
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                10.5093/pi2022a4
                10268545
                479012e3-ccc2-4175-8881-8dceab126543
                Copyright © 2022, Colegio Oficial de la Psicología de Madrid

                This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial No Derivative License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited and the work is not changed in any way.

                History
                : 26 November 2020
                : 18 December 2021
                : 11 February 2022
                Page count
                Figures: 3, Tables: 8, Equations: 0, References: 96
                Categories
                Research-Article

                hot yoga,well-being,randomized controlled trial,experience-sampling,positive psychology intervention,bienestar,ensayo controlado aleatorizado,muestreo de experiencias,intervención en psicología positiva

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