Psychological Hardiness and Depressive Symptoms among athlete students versus non-athletes: Comparative Study | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 77, Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2021, Page 1255-1266 PDF (611.95 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2021.195072 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Hosnia Shehata Mohamed; Mona Fawzy Hussien* | ||||
| Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing - Assiut University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Sport has been shown to be effective both in treating symptoms of major depression and raising hardiness but it is still underutilized in clinical practice. Aim: This study aimed to investigate the relation between, psychological hardiness and depression among the athlete students versus non-athletes. Design: It was a causative comparative and correlational study in terms of descriptive designs. Setting: It was carried out at faculty of Nursing and faculty of Physical Education at Assiut University. Subjects: Simple random sample composed of 218 non-athlete university female students and 218 athlete university female students. Tools: The study’s questionnaire consisted of three parts; involving demographic data, Beck depression inventory (BDI) to measure the degree of depression, and Kobasa hardiness questionnaire (KHQ) to measure hardiness. Results: The result conveyed that non-athlete females under study had lower depression scores than athlete females with no statistical significant differences. Also, there were significant differences between athletic and non-athletic females as regard to total psychological hardiness all subscale except for commitment subscale. Conclusion: Athlete female students under study had higher psychological hardiness mean scores than non-athletes with higher statistical significant differences & depression mean score with no statistical significant difference. Recommendations: The important of practicing sport to improve psychological hardiness and mental health wellbeing | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Psychological hardiness; Sport; Athletes; Depression symptoms; Female students | ||||
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