\"This study was done to show what effect the participation in exercise has on students’ mental health with visual impairments and to provide basic materials on the ways to activate sports for students with visual impairments. To achieve the purpose, 263 students with visual impairments attending twelve middle schools and high schools throughout the country were surveyed and analyzed. The summary is as follows.
For one thing, in the level of overall mental health, interpersonal sensitivity showed the highest, anxiety, lowest. Secondly, in the total standards of mental health by genders, males revealed higher than females and by subfactor, in the level of obsessive-compulsive, phobia, interpersonal sensitivities, anxieties, somatizations and depressions, females showed higher than males. In the level of middle school students and high school students, middle school students suggested higher level of hostility than high school students. By the degree of visual acuities, students with totally-blind indicated higher level of phobia and interpersonal sensitivity than students with low vision. By developmental period of visual impairments, students with inherent, visual impairments showed higher anxieties level than those with acquired, visual impairments. Thirdly, for the group taking exercise and not taking any exercise, the group with not taking any exercise displayed higher level of phobia and anxieties than the group with exercise. By the frequencies of exercises, the group taking exercises 6~7 times a week demonstrated higher phobia level than the group exercising 2~3 times a week, and the group exercising 6~7 times weekly showed higher psychoticism level than the group exercising 4~5 times weekly. Fourthly, in the relation to the factors influencing students’ mental health with visual impairments, the total group as well as the group taking exercises and the group taking not any exercise suggested higher positive correlations among the factors.
Key words : Students with Visual impairments, Participation in Physical Activity, Mental Health\"