TY - JOUR ID - 7987 TI - Comparing the Mental Health of Female Athlete and Non-Athlete Students in the City of Indica JO - International Journal of Advanced Biological and Biomedical Research JA - IJABBR LA - en SN - 2383-2762 AU - Talebzadeh, Fatemeh AU - Talebzadeh, Mohammad AU - Abrahimian, Maryam AD - Department of Physical Education, Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran AD - Department of English Sciences Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran Y1 - 2014 PY - 2014 VL - 2 IS - 7 SP - 2191 EP - 2196 KW - mental health KW - Physical symptoms KW - Symptoms of Anxiety KW - social dysfunction KW - Depression Symptoms DO - N2 - Objective: The present study aimed to compare mental health of female athlete and non-athlete students in the city of Indica. The research methodology was a descriptive survey, which initially described the mental health and then compared it among the students. Methods: The statistical population of the study included all high school girls in the academic year of 2012-2013 in the city of Indica accounting for 919 subjects. The sampling was done in this study by two methods of census (enumeration) and multi-stage cluster random sampling. Due to the limited number of athletes (85 subjects), all were included in the study sample. Of the non-athletic population, 106 non-athlete subjects were selected using Cochran formula by multi-stage cluster random sampling method. The measurement tool in this study was the Goldberg and Hiller GHQ Standard Questionnaire (1979) consisting of two parts. The first part includes demographic information, including questions about demographic and individual characteristics of study samples such as age, type of illness, etc. The second part consisted of 28 questions to measure four subscales (somatic symptoms, anxiety, social functioning and depression). The reliability (reliability coefficient) of the questionnaire was obtained as 0.85 through Cronbach's alpha coefficient. For data analysis, the descriptive statistics was used in order to summarize the data, and the inferential statistics, including Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Mann-Whitney tests were used to test the hypotheses. Results: The results showed significant differences between physical symptoms, anxiety and insomnia, social dysfunction and depression in two groups of female athlete and non- athlete students. UR - https://www.ijabbr.com/article_7987.html L1 - https://www.ijabbr.com/article_7987_f69649f5a4397b4610e11a1fa6344cc4.pdf ER -