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European Journal of Educational Studies 2(2), 2010social skill in our society in which everything changes rapidly and gets more complicated, bringing individualswith balanced personality up primarily depends on identifying individuals‟ problems and the support that will begiven to them. Everybody confronts continuously with various problems throughout their lives (Çağlayan, 2008;Güzel, 2004; Çağlayan, Sezen, ve Fidan, 2007). Individuals can maintain a healthy, peaceful and happy life aslong as they solve these problems. In this context, being successful and enjoying life depends on people‟s havingthe skill of solving problems in the most appropriate manner (Çağlayan, Şirin, Çetin, and İnce, 1998; Ellis, andRobert ,1994).Young adulthood can be generally accepted as a period when social activities increase and social environmentexpands. During young adulthood, social skills, communications and social interactions gradually get morecomplex. It begins to resemble the situations that adults encounter. Many problems encountered in this periodmay be encountered for the first time in their lives. Problems such as smoking, consuming alcohol and harmfulsubstance, eating disorder, decrease in self-respect, deterioration in social support systems, decline in academicachievement, and deterioration in social adaptation can begin to be observed. Especially, it is known that theuniversity students‟ having low or high social skills and problem solving skills have a significant impact on theirschool achievement and their success in real life. Because of that, in order to prevent the potential problems thatcan be encountered problem solving skills should be taught to the individuals in addition to basic social skills(Çam, 1995; Mayer, 1992; Üstün, and Bozkurt,2003).Since 1960s, various researches are made to investigate the relationship between personality and sportiveperformance and it is observed that sportsman has different characteristics in comparison to people who are notengage in sports (Çilingir, 2006; Şah, 2005). It is also accepted that people who do sports are more independent,more objective and less apprehensive… etc. than who are not engage in any sports and they have differentcharacteristics (Ellis, and Robert ,1994; Kolb,1984; Koray, and Azar, 2008; Prawat, 2000). It is a fact thatpeople doing sport encounter with more problems (Dee, Nauman, Livesay, and Rice, 2002; Saracoğlu, Serin,andBozkurt, 2001). On the other hand, it is thought that distinct sport branches have different effect on problemsolving skills (Bilge, and Aslan, 1999; Ferah, 2000; Türkçapar, 2009; Jones, Reichard, and Mokhtarı, 2003;Pehlivan, and Konukman, 2004).METHOD211 female and 389 male, in total 600 students from public schools in Bursa, took part in this research. In orderto carry out the aim of this research, two methods are used in gathering data for it. First of all, the scanning ofliterature on this theme is completed, and later on, the questionnaire, which was prepared after experts‟ opinionswere taken, was conducted to the students in order to take their opinion about the sports effect on problemsolving skills.In data analysis process, significance test (T-Test) of two percentages and variance analysis test (Anova) areapplied to the applicants in addition to simple statistical techniques such as frequency and percentagedistribution. During the analysis of the tests, .05 significance level is used for their statistical acceptance.102