The Relationship between Mental Health and Happiness with Academic Success of University Students

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between mental health and happiness with academic success. It is important and inequitable to explore the effective factors on academic achievement of university students who are most intelligent individuals of society and future makers of country. Lack of mental health and happiness can prevent from progress، exalt، and charge ones duties، and this cause to academic failure among university students. Considering academic failure is one of the main problems in higher education، so the aim of this study is to define the relation between mental health and happiness with academic success among university students. Method This research is a survey study. The subjects of the study included180 (58 male، 122female) university students selected by stratified random sampling through Master of Science students from faculty of humanities. The instruments of research included General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) and Oxford Happiness Inventory and mean scores were chosen as achievement index. The results of correlation analysis indicated that there is no significant relationship between mental health and happiness with academic achievement، but the results is indicator of significant negative relationship of mental health and happiness. In addition، there is not any significant relationship in mental health and happiness of male and female university students. Performing of educational and preventive programs can improve and promote mental health and academic situation in order to raise esprit level of university students. The results of the study indicates: 1- There is not a relationship between mental health and academic achievement. 2- There is not a relationship between happiness and academic achievement. 3-There is a meaningful relationship between mental health and happiness. As much as the rate of mental health improves، the happiness of the individual increases and happiness improves by mental health. 4- There is no difference between girls and boys in mental health. 5- There is no meaningful difference between girls and boys happiness. 6- There in no significant difference between happiness of girls and boys in universities of Iran and developed countries.