The Relationship between General Health and Attribution Style and its Comparison in Female and Male Freshman and Senior Students in Different Fields Print Persian Abstract Author(s): *

General health of students is an important issue in psycho-social studies, which has a close relation to optimistic and pessimistic attribution styles of Seligmann (1979). The aim of present study was to compare general health and attribution style in female and male freshmen and senior students in Islamic Azad University. The type of research has been a causal comparison. The sample of this study included 288 B.A. and B.S. students in Sari branch of Islamic Azad University (120 females and 168 males). The students were randomly selected through cluster sampling. They completed questionnaires GHQ-28 and ASQ questionnaires. The results of this study, using SPSS-18, showed that there was a negative correlation between depression symptoms, and somatic symptoms with the sense of self-control (P<0/0001). Also there was a positive correlation between the aspects of stability, non stability, anxiety, sleep disorder, and depression symptoms (P<0/031). There was a positive correlation between the social function and generic-specific aspect (P<0/016). Compared to freshman students, senior students attribute their successes and their failures in a more generalized form (P<0/003) and a more unstable way (P<0/016). The study also showed that there is no significant difference between the senior and freshmen stuednts in their general health scales (P<0/05). Students of different fields of engineering were different in generic-specific aspects with the other students (P<0/0001). There was no significant relation among different fields of study concerning their general health (P<0/05). No significant relation was found between gender and attributive styles (P<0/05). Females in different aspect of somatic symptoms (P<0/0001), anxiety, and sleep disorders gained higher scores (P<0/013).