Afshin Shaltokchi - Department of Physical education and sport sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University ,Tehran , Iran
Farideh Ashraf Ganjouei - Department of Physical education and sport sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University ,Tehran , Iran
Farshad Tojari - Department of Physical education and sport sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University ,Tehran , Iran

Background: Regarding to the fire fighters has key & important roles in each society & fire fighters’ performances are affected by different factors. So this research is done by goal of surveying on the effects of physical fitness & psychological characteristics (tenacity & mental health) of fire fighters of Tehran.Materials and Methods: The method of current research is descriptive. Statistical population included all fire fighters of 18, 73, 53, 71 fire stations that they were about 361 persons & 118 person of them were selected regarding to the Morgan’s table. The tools of this research included the physical fitness measurement tests (agility 540 test, sit up test; pull up test, agility 4& 9 & flexibility). Goldberg’s general health questionnaire(physical syndrome, anxiety & sleep disorders, social function disorders severe depression) with 0.82 reliability & Ahwaz tenacity questionnaire (with three componentscommitment, control, militant) with 0.88 reliability & fire fighters’ performance questionnaire (which adjusted by organization) with 0.79 reliability that their preliminary plan of reliability is higher than 0.75. For analyzing the data is used deductive & descriptive statistic (regression analysis) in the p≤ 0.05 level. Results and Discussions: The results of physical fitness affects on psychologicalcharacteristics & fire fighters’ performance of Tehran & also physical fitness components & mental health component & finally tenacity component affect in firefighters’ performance of Tehran. Conclusion: Since the importance of fire fighters than others, so need to the increasing the psychological characteristics & mental health in improvement their efficiency

Physical fitness, tenacity, mental health & fire fighters