Today one of the problems of human society is inadequate mobility and poor social relations, that is contrary to nature of every human being. Socialization process is one the most important components of growth and one of the most fundamental axes of growth and personality. The purpose of this study was 8 weeks of basketball training on the social development of non-athlete s girl students. Method of research is semi-empirical by using of pre-post test plan and with experimental and control groups. Thus, 60 non-athlete girl students from University of Masjed soleyman chosen randomly and then divided into two experimental and control (N=30 per group). In this study, experimental group for 8 weeks, two- session per week began 90 minutes practicing basketball, and both groups before and after 8 weeks with Alice Weitzman Social Development Questionnaire (1981) were measured. Reliability of this questionnaire was confirmed by Cronbach s alpha (r = 0.81). Independent T and paired T tests methods were used for data analysis. Comparison results of two groups showed that, after eight weeks basketball training, in experimental group except the hope and optimism, social development and other dimensions had positive and meaningful change (0.05 ≥ a).

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