Relationship between Mental Health and Physical Fitness with Result of Futsal Matches, and Making the Regression Model for Teen Boy Players

This study investigated the relationship between mental health and physical fitness, with the result of futsal matches at Behbahan high school boys in Iran and making a regression model for them. Participants were 40 boys aged 16–18 out which 20 students were recruited among futsal teams of school memberships (Empirical group = EG), and 20 students among those who were not interested in any physical activities (Sedentary group = SG), that were randomly selected as multi-stage sampling. The EG, as 5 parallel groups, after 5 sessions for 1.5 hours per day for identifying the rules, regulations and teaching, participated in periodic matches during 8 weeks, as a two-day competition, and one day for solving their probable problems. Goldberg and Hillier's 28-item scaled version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28), as a pre-test and a post-test, were administered on the Empirical group (EG) and the SG simultaneously, but the SG did not participate in any physical activity. The results showed that promote in quality of mental health as the total, was related with a better score on the matches’ result, but this positive correlation was not as a statistical significant (p<0.05), but the relationship between most of the fitness tests and the score's matches were considerable. So, correlation of standing broad jump, shuttle run and 1 mile- run tests were significant with the result of matches. Thus, In accordance with these results, the regression model was made only by fitness tests for teen boy futsal players that with f = 4.08 and p = 0.02, respectively importance include 1 mile-run, standing broad jump, shuttle-run and 30m-sprint tests. Further, the result of the GHQ-28 in the EG was significantly different than the SG.