AUTHOR(S): Bilal Ahmad Bhat and Mudeser Muzafer

ABSTRACT:
In sports psychology personality has received the most attention in recent research. The Personality is a term commonly used by people concerned with almost every aspect of human interaction. Social adjustment is the process whereby an organism, organ, or individual entity enters into a relationship of harmony or equilibrium with its environment and the condition of having attained such a relationship. The purpose of this study was to compare Sportsmen and Non sportsmen on their levels of Psychological Factor ‘social adjustment’. Total numbers of 48 students were selected as the samples for the study from the 5 secondary schools of Shopian city of J&K. In which 24 were Sportsmen and rest 24 were Non sportsmen. The data collection tool used in the study was the Dr. Mahdi Abdul Kahlq social Adjustment Questionnaire developed in 2006 for the study in University of Kurdistan Iraq. Results shows, that the mean and standard deviation scores of Sportsmen &Non sportsmen on social adjustment is 16.99(+1.893) &16.19(2.727+) respectively. The calculated ‘t’ of social adjustment of sportsmen and Non sportsmenis 2.155 which is significant at 0.05 level of significance. The result shows that there is significant difference between the social adjustment of Sportsmen and Non sportsmen, thus the research hypothesis was accepted. In the social adjustment, we observe that Sportsmen got good results as compared to Non sportsmen. Researcher observed that the means scores of social adjustment showed that Sportsmen have little high level of social adjustment as compare to Non sportsmen. In the present study we found that there is significant difference in the social adjustment of Sportsmen and Non sportsmen, so we can conclude that their social adjustment is not similar.

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