en پژوهشي Research <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><b><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Introduction: </span></b><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Physical activity has a significant impact on the quality of life and mental health of college students. The importance and role of happiness in mental health and social participation have been one of the most important priorities of psychology researchers. Also, very few studies have been conducted on happiness among college students, especially females, so the present study aimed to determine the correlation between physical fitness and happiness among female university students.</span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><b><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Materials and Methods: </span></b><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">This research was a descriptive and correlational study. The participants consisted of a group of 124 females (aged 20.94 &plusmn; 1.82 years) who were selected randomly from Ilam university students. The AAHPERD battery was used to obtain the physical fitness grade of the students and the Oxford questionnaire was used to calculate their happiness. The data were analyzed by SPSS software and the Pearson correlation coefficient.</span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><b><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Results: </span></b><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Results of this study indicated a significant relationship between physical fitness and happiness (r = 0.293, P = 0.048).</span><span dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="FA"></span></span></span></span></span><br> <b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Conclusion: </span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">The research indicated that exercise and physical activity effectively improve students&#39; happiness and suggested that it must pay more attention to sport programs and increase university student&#39;s physical fitness. </span></span></span> Physical Fitness, Happiness, University Students 28 33 http://jbrms.medilam.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-341-3&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Maryam Naghibzadeh naghibzadehmaryam@yahoo.com 10031947532846007595 10031947532846007595 Yes Department of Physical Education and Sports Science, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran