Purpose:Given the importance and recognition of mental health and its relationship to social health along
with happiness and joy and understanding of the people in charges of mental phenomena and representing a policy,
may confirm their research goals in this area. Therefore, the present study attempted to investigate the effect of the selected
exercise on male students' general health and happiness in Payame Noor University in Babol.Materials and methods:80 male
students were selected voluntarily that divided into two groups: the experimental group (40 cases) and the control group (40
cases). The exercise protocol in experimental group consisted of playing succor in a creational and competitive way for 8 weeks,
two sessions a week, each session lasting 60 to 90 minutes. To measure the happiness index, the Oxford Happiness
Questionnaire was used which has 29 questions with four options. To measure the general health, the general health
questionnaire (GHQ) was used which has 28 articles and developed in 1979 by Goldberg and Hiller and have four subscales:
1) physical symptoms, 2) anxiety symptoms, 3) social functioning, and 4) depression symptoms. Information obtained
by dependent and independent T test analyzed through SPPS statistical program at level 0 / 05