In the past twenty years great attention has been paid to the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic issues associated with physical activity. With respect to the increasing prevalence of mental disorders throughout society and the influence of physical activity on these disorders, particularly among adolescent girls who are the future mothers and builders of the country, this study aims at investigating the interactive role of physical activity and personal traits on the psychosocial development of female students. The present study is causative-comparative. A number of 75 young female athlete students with regular engagement in physical activities and 80 adolescent females with no engagement in physical activities were selected. Instruments employed in this research were personal information questionnaire, Hawley\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Measures of Psychosocial Development (MPD), and Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI). Data were analyzed using independent t tests and causative variance analysis using SPSS software. Results showed that athlete female students are better in personality traits such as extroversion, stability and psychosocial development than non-athlete students and extrovert and/or stable athlete students enjoy a higher psychosocial development than non-athlete students (P<0.05). Findings show that personality traits and psychosocial development have close relationship with physical activity of the adolescents. With respect to the particular needs of adolescence, any kind of carelessness whatsoever towards the adolescents might endanger their personality traits and psychosocial development. Hence, it is recommended that authorities and healthcare systems adopt a more precise planning in order to maintain and improve independence among adolescents throughout society.

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