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A Comparative Study of Mental Health between Athlete and Non-Athlete

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Bhaskar Salvi
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Bhaskar Salvi
Available Online December 2018.
DOI
10.2991/yishpess-cois-18.2018.169How to use a DOI?
Keywords
sports, exercise psychology
Abstract

Mental health is a term used to describe either a level of cognitive or emotional well or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience. The aim of study is to find out the mental health between athlete and non-athlete. For the present study 200 Sample were selected from Mumbai City. The effective sample consisted of 200 subjects, out of whom 100 Athlete (Short distance runners, throwers: Short put, Javelin, Javelin thrower, and Discuss throwers) and 100 non-Athlete (Football players, Cricket players, and Volleyball Players). The age range of players is 18-25 years. C.G. Deshpande Mental Health Test was used for measuring Mental Health. All the 50 items of the scale are presented in simple and brisk style. Each item has two answer (multiple Choice) ‘YES’ and ‘NO’ This is well known test having high reliability and validity coefficients. Athlete has significantly good mental health than the non-athlete. (Athlete: M = 45.26, SD = 6.28 and Non-Athlete: M = 37.59, SD = 4.18).

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd Yogyakarta International Seminar on Health, Physical Education, and Sport Science (YISHPESS 2018) and 1st Conference on Interdisciplinary Approach in Sports (CoIS 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
December 2018
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10.2991/yishpess-cois-18.2018.169
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2352-5398
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10.2991/yishpess-cois-18.2018.169How to use a DOI?
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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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