Today researchers pay more attention on the relationship between exercise and physical activity with physically and mentally health. The purpose of this research is to compare the mental health of elders doing public sports and those inactive in Tehran, and to realize whether those doing sports are mentally healthier than others. The population is all those elders doing and not doing public sports in Tehran. According to the random-cluster sampling, 168 questionnaires were handed out among elders doing public sports in four parks and elders not doing sports in two elders house, that 150 questionnaires were useable (which consisted of 81 active elders and 69 inactive elders). In order to collect data needed to assess their mental health, Goldber & healer (GHQ-28) questionnaire was used. In order to compare the mean of the two groups, T-test descriptive statistics and deductive statistics (considering normality of Information based on K-S test), is used; SPSS-18 is also used to analyze the data. According to the results of the research, there is a significant difference between active and inactive elders. According to the findings of this research and other related researches it can be concluded that doing public sports has a positive and significant effect on elder's mental health.
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Special Received: 2013/12/29 | Accepted: 2014/08/23 | Published: 2014/08/23