Elham Sadeghi, Akbar Afarinesh and Reza Nikbakhsh
The purpose of this study was Comparison of life satisfaction, job innovation in martial arts players and nonathletes in Tehran. The population of the study consisted of 800 athletes of wushu, karate and tekwando that the sample was based on Morgan 260 athletes and 260 non athletes. To collect data Life Satisfaction Scale (Neugarten, Tobi Having Hurst, 1961) and Innovation Scale (Patchen, 1965) were used. The results showed that there is significant differences between both satisfaction of life and innovation in athletes and non athletes (P<0.05). Also, there was no significant differences between innovation of athlete men and women (P<0.05).
