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The aim of this research is to determine and the social integration levels of Turkish students who are between 13 and 16 age, make sports and who do not make sports living in Germany. This research includes 440 students studying in schools determined by Republic of Turkey, Embassy of Munich, Office of Education Attache who inhabit in Munich and its surroundings and who are between 13 and 16 age, make sports and do not make sports. In this research, "Personal Information Form" and "Hacettepe Personality Inventory" were used as data gathering tool. As a result of research, if averages of Hacettepe Personality Inventory (HPI) subscale point are analyzed in terms of sex, age, type of school, time of inhabitancy it is apparent that points of students who make sports are higher than the points of students who do not make sport; in other words students who make sports are more adaptable than the students who do not make sports. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.