The Relationship between Physical Function and General Health with Academic Achievement

AbstractThis research was going to study the possible relation of physical function and general health on the academic achievement of the school students. The population of this research includes all the girl students in Islamshahr who were studying in the educational year of 2010-2011 in junior high schools, from which 360 students were picked up through cluster sampling. In this correlation research physical function and general health are the independent variables and academic achievement is the depended variable. The implements used in this research were the Ahpered body general test and GHQ general health questionnaire. Statistical computation such as descriptive statistic and Pearson and Regression multivariable correlative coefficient were made by gathering the answers of 360 students to the formerly named tests and questions and putting the data in to SPSS software. Result out of analyzing the data revealed that: the physical characteristics, stress and sleeping distortion, depression and physical function has great effect on academic achievement but the disorder of social behavior has no effect on the academic achieveme nt