摘要：The issue of the contribution of the game in the process of shaping and developing the personality of the preadolescent child aroused the interest and concerns of specialists, aiming to optimize the educational approaches that the school can implement in the training and harmonious development of the student's personality. For the success of the methodological approach of the child's personality development it is essential that the educator has a rich range of knowledge on the mechanisms of the human mental system, structural components of personality, educational values of the game, etc., along with the methodological arsenal and experience. The aim of the paper is to be aware of the importance, role and benefits of practicing games in shaping and perfecting the student's personality. Conclusions: - Following the practice of the game, the student's gain in terms of forming his personality, his balance is difficult to pass on to another activity. - The benefits that the practice of the game can bring to the educational approach of the formation and selfformation of the student's personality, can be synthesized and highlighted within the following levels: • Biological - health, physical condition; • Cognitive - knowledge about oneself, the physical and social environment as syntheses of theoretical information and direct experiences of the student; • Affective - acceptance and affirmation of one's own person, critical and constructive attitudes towards one's own physical condition, perseverance in respecting the commitment assumed, the pleasure of practicing a sport or mastering the general bases of sport; • Social - awareness of the complementarity of actions and roles in activities of any kind carried out on the basis of rules, the activity in the sense of either competition or cooperation; • Aesthetics - awareness of harmony through the codes of symmetry, proportionality, eurythmy, etc.
