بررسي سلامت رواني و موفقيت تحصيلي دانشجويان ممتاز دانشگاهها

A STUDY OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN TALLENTED UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

This study aimed to compare mental health and academic achievement of tallented university students who are studying under single major and double major educational programs. Three hundred talented students (150 single major and 150 double majore) were selected from Tehran, Amir Kabir, Sharif, Elm-o-sanat, Shahid Beheshty, Allameh Tabatabaie, and Ferdosi universities. All participants completed the SCL-90-R and the Personal Educational Characteristics Questionnaire. Results indicated that positive sings and symptoms indices in the students are more than social norm. In addition, obsessive - compulsive and interpersonal relationship sensitivity among single major students meaningful differences compared with double major students. Also scores mean of double major excellent students in first major meaningfully were higher than single major ones. Related to gender, results showed that scores mean of female double major students were meaningfully more than female single major students. But, there were no such differences between male students. Meanwhile, the research indicated that among double major students, first major scores mean were higher than second major ones.