A comparative study of stress level among athletes and non-athletes

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Bahram Abedi ¹

1 - Azad University Mahalat Branch

Received: 2015-06-05 Accepted : 2015-06-05 Published : 2010-03-21

Keywords: gender, college student, Stress, Sport,

Abstract :

The current study measured stress in students, 200 student athletes (100 female and 100 male) with a mean age 19 years and 300 non-athlete students (150 females and 150 males) with a mean age of 18 years were selected from Islamic Azad University and administered the Stress Questionnaire (Dyer, 1987). Results of ANOVA showed that the non-athlete students experienced more stress than the athlete group. There were no significant stress differences based on gender. Findings were interpreted based on the role of physical activity in reducing stress levels in the students.