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Although our ancestors were exposed to physical and infectious diseases, today their major problems and diseases are allocated to mental disorders.
Considering the spread of mental disorders in the society, specially among female university students who are the future mothers and crucial members in the society, this research tries to compare the level of mental health between athletic university students and non-athletic ones in Al-Zahra University. It also tends to compare the level of mental health among students of Al-Zahra faculties. In the research, the general health questionnaire (GHQ-28) was used to measure the level of university students' mental health. 260 testees among Al-Zahra university students were selected randomly from all the faculties. The statisitical method,
used to investigate and compare the average of athletic community with that of non-athletic one, was T test. Results indicate that there is a meaningful difference between body signals, anxiety, sleep disorder, disorder in social efficiency and depression of athletic university students, and those of non-athletic ones. Also, in comparison with other university students, the students of Physical Education Faculties enjoy more suitable conditions regarding mental health and its four fold analogies.