Comparison Amount of Mental Health Between Athlete and Non Athlete Girl Students of Islamic Azad University Omidiyeh Branch

Jahoda (1958) elaborated on the 1947 WHO declaration that “health is not merely the absence of illness but a complete state of physical, psychological and social well-being” by separating mental health into three domains. First, mental health involves self-realization in that individuals are allowed to fully exploit their potential. Second, mental health includes a sense of mastery by the individual over their environment, and, finally, that positive mental health also means autonomy, as in individuals having the ability to identify, confront, and solve problems.This is a descriptive study that has been done on girl students of Islamic Azad University Omidiyeh Branch(IAUOB). For evaluation of mental health the GHQ-28 questionnaire of Gold Berg and Hiller (1979) was used. Also we separated athlete and non athlete students with the use of physical activity levels. Therefore those students that had 3 session's regular exercise a week indicated as active and the other students that did not do any exercise during a week indicated as sedentary. The statistical population of this research was all girl students of Omidiyeh University that among them 200 persons (active= 100 & non active = 100) by randomly filled out the general health questionnaire. The statistical analyze ion of data has been done by computer and SPSS program with the use of independent samples test method and also a≤0.05. The results show that there is significant difference (p-value=0.001) between athlete and non athlete girls students of IAUOB.