AU - Ghasempour, A. AU - Jodat, H. AU - Soleimani, M. TI - A comparison of Psychological Well-Being in Athlete and Non-Athlete Students PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - RUMS_JOURNAL JN - RUMS_JOURNAL VO - 13 VI - 2 IP - 2 4099 - http://journal.rums.ac.ir/article-1-1680-en.html 4100 - http://journal.rums.ac.ir/article-1-1680-en.pdf SO - RUMS_JOURNAL 2 AB  - Background and Objective: Today researchers consider sports as one of the methods of reinforcing psychological parameters development. The purpose of the present study was to compare psychological well-being in the athlete and non-athlete (ordinary) students. Materials and Methods: This was a cross sectional study and the statistical population included all high school students of Miyandoab city during 2012-2013 educational year. The statistical sample of the research included 100 athlete student and 100 non-athlete student who were selected through multistage cluster sampling. The participants answered Ryff’s Psychological Well-being Scale (with 0.68 reliability). Data were analyzed using independent two sample t-test and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). Results: Results of t-test revealed that psychological well-being of the athlete students (81.86±14.89) was significantly higher than non-athlete students (76.13±9.22) (p    CP - IRAN IN - LG - eng PB - RUMS_JOURNAL PG - 193 PT - Research YR - 2014