The Quality of Social Interaction between Martial Art Athletes

Abstract

This study described sports from the perspective of social psychology, particularly in terms of social interaction. Martial arts involve direct physical contacts with social interaction partners. These contacts are essentially direct relationship between one and another individual. This study seeks to investigate the quality of social interaction between martial art athletes. Judo and karate are among of the many martial arts that are characterized with full body combat. The objective of this study was to describe the quality of social interaction between martial art athletes. To this end, questionnaires were addressed to the samples who were all student of karate and judo unit at Indonesia University of Education in order to find out the quality of social interaction between karate and judo athletes. This study is expected to motivate athletes and coaches and to educate society in general that martial arts can contribute positively to the quality of social interaction.