TY - JOUR T1 - A comparison of Psychological Well-Being in Athlete and Non-Athlete Students TT - مقایسه بهزیستی روانشناختی در دانش‌آموزان ورزشکار و غیرورزشکار JF - RUMS_JOURNAL JO - RUMS_JOURNAL VL - 13 IS - 2 UR - http://journal.rums.ac.ir/article-1-1680-en.html Y1 - 2014 SP - 193 EP - 204 KW - Athlete KW - Non-athlete KW - Psychological well-being KW - Students N2 - 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    M3 ER -