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Explain the role of physical education in the development of personality of an individual.

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Personality represents those characteristics of the person that account for consistent patterns of behaviour. Broadly, four factors influence how an individual respond in any given situation the genetic make-up, past experience, the nature of the situation in which he/she find themselves and the free will. Personality development means the process in which an individual’s attitude, discipline, helpfulness, team spirit, patience, unity, friendship etc., grows. 

(a) Attitude : 

1. Physical Education helps an individual to develop the attitude of competition against themselves for their betterment. 

2. Physical Education helps the individual to develop an attitude of learning from their failure and success rather than getting too much elated about their success and depressed of their failure. 

3. Physical Education helps in developing an attitude of equanimity at the time of success and failure and also develops an attitude to pursue excellence. 

4. Physical Education develops an attitude to respect sports, other participants, coaches, official and themselves. 

(b) Discipline : 

1. Physical Education helps in developing learned effective skills for dealing with conflict, difficult opponents, and other people when they are negative or oppositional during sports competition and thereby an individual gets disciplined. 

2. Individual realizes through sports and games the value of being systematic, consistent and punctual as these qualities help the individual to develop his sporting ability. Accepting these qualities help the individual to become disciplined. 

(c) Helpfulness : 

1. While playing sports and games an individual learns the importance of helping others. For developing bonding one has to assist, motivate and cooperate. 

2. The senior players get respect from junior players when they help the junior players to develop their skill by sharing their experience. 

3. The quality of helpfulness is required during training session and sharing of equipment. 

4. It is required during competition when an individual’s performance is getting affected. 

5. Through sports and games an individual understands one’s success is not only the result of one’s effort but also due to the help received from coach, team members, family etc. 

(d) Team Spirit: 

1. Nature of sports is such that there is one common goal to be achieved by each member of a team and that goal can be called as team goal and that is winning. This common goal develops the quality of team spirit. 

2. To win as a team a sense of respect for each member of team is required. Apart from sense of respect for team member there is a requirement of giving priority to team’s achievement than individuals. This thought and act of one while playing sports and game develops the quality of team spirit. 

(e) Patience : 

1. Individual while playing sports and games understands the importance of patience. One needs to regularly do hard work and has to be patient for the development of performance. 

2. One needs to adjust with the team members. In order to adjust with others one needs to have patience. Applying strategies requires patience. For developing the quality of consistency one needs to be patient. 

(f) Unity : 

1. Common goal develops unity. The team which lacks unity has more chances to get defeated than the team which has unity. 

2. Each player in the team may have different responsibility and each member getting assistance and motivation to fulfill their responsibility from other team members develops a sense of unity among team members. 

(g) Friendship : 

1. Quality of helpfulness, sacrifice, assistance, motivation, support and respect among the players develops the quality of friendship. 

2. Matches between countries help in developing the quality of friendship among players of different country.

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