A Comparing between the Self - Actualization of Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students in Payame Noor University

Self actualization is one of the characteristic of mental health that motivates learning, growth and development and causes improve general quality of life. The objective of the present easy is studying self-actualization differences between undergraduate and postgraduate students of Payame Noor University of Tehran. For this reason 403 students, including 193 undergraduate students and 210 postgraduate with the age average of 27 and 2 months (age range of 18 to 50 years old) were selected by categorical random, among 16000 students of Payame Noor University. All the respondents answered all the items on the questionnaire of Jones and Crandall’ self- actualization index (1986), and demographic information questionnaire in one session. The data analysis by T-test revealed that there is no significant difference (α≤ 0.05) between two groups concerning self-actualization and demographic characteristics such as age, gender, marital status and academic degree and education level. Hence, self- actualization of the students of Payame Noor University is not effected by demographic characteristics.