Mutual Social Confidence and its Relationship to a Sense of Self among People with Physical Disabilities Who are Practicing and Non-Practicing in Sports Activities

Abstract

Social confidence is a basic factor to understand the individual behavior of the society that interacts with them in the various fields of life, such as family or job interaction, performing some duties, or performing various activities, including sports. Therefore, the higher the social confidence of the individual, the more it gives the individual a sense of self-esteem which concedes among the positive psychological indicators, the category of people with physical disabilities and what constitutes the category of people with disabilities in our society, especially in Iraq, is increasing every day, whether it is due to accidents or birth, where the importance of the study emerged through the researcher’s quest to search for the nature of mutual social confidence between the normal people and those with physical disabilities, and the extent of their suitability for this category, and to identify the extent to which individuals with physical disabilities, including practitioners and non-practitioners, have sports activities about their sense of self and the impact of mutual social trust in them. As for the research problem, does the category of people with physical disabilities, practitioners and non-practitioners of sports activities, enjoy mutual social confidence. The objectives are to build and apply a scale of mutual social confidence among individuals with physical disabilities who are practitioners and non-practitioners of sports activities, and to prepare and apply a scale for the sense of self among individuals with physical disabilities who are practitioners and non-practitioners of sports activities. The researcher followed the descriptive approach, correlative relationships, and comparative studies for their suitability to the nature of the study. As the research sample included the exploratory experiment sample and included (24) individuals equally distributed by (12) practitioners and non-practitioners, while the construction and preparation sample included a sample consisting of (140) individuals equally distributed by (70) practitioners and two non-practitioners, the application sample included (124) individuals equally distributed, with (62) practitioners, and the same two non-practitioners of sports activities. the procedures are mutual social confidence scale was built and a scale of self-esteem was prepared. The exploratory and main experiment was conducted after correcting the scales and determining them through statistical treatments on the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) to process the data. The conclusions were: The category of people with physical disabilities in Baghdad enjoys mutual social confidence and a good sense of self. And there are differences between the category of people with physical disabilities who practice sports activities from non-practitioners in their enjoyment of mutual social confidence and a sense of self. As for the recommendations, it is necessary to provide real support and good treatment among the various segments of society, especially the category of people with physical disabilities.