摘要：The aim of this study is comparison emotional intelligence and mental health between athletic and non-athletic students. On this base 100 athlete students and 100 non athlete students selected cluster randomly as samples. For data collection SCL-90- R questionnaire and Bar-On questionnaire were used for measuring mental health and emotional intelligence. All data colleted were assessed by using One-Way Analysis of Variance and independent t test. Statistical significance was conferred at P=0.05. All statistical analysis was accomplished using SPSS (v 16). The results of this research showed that there are significant differences between athletes and Non- athletes in some of emotional intelligence components such as: happiness, Stress Tolerance and Self-assertiveness (P<0.05). Also there are significant differences between athletes and Non- athletes in mental health (P<0.05).
