Relationship between Resiliency and Athletic Activities in Male and Female Students

Abstract

Resiliency is a Capability Process or Successful Compatibility consequence with threatening conditions, which include Physical, Rational, Social and Emotional domains for the interpretation of life events. The purpose of this research was to review the rate of resiliency in athletic and non-athletic male and female students encountering stressful situations. This research is of the causal – comparative type. The statistical population of this research included all male and female students from Farhangian University of Guilan. 120 students were selected through Random Cluster sampling method. In order to collect the data, the Conner-Davidson Resiliency Questionnaire was used. The results showed that there was a significant difference between the average scores of resiliency against stress in athletic and non-athletic female students (P ≤ 0.01) as well as male students, athletes and non-athletes (p≤0.01). However, there wasn’t any difference between scores of resiliency in male and female students (p≥0.54). These results showed that male and female athletes have higher levels of resiliency in comparison with non-athletic students.