本文提出了体育对培养青年自我意识,引导青年健康积极的生活态度和行为方式,加速青年对人们共同生活准则的了解,鼓励青年的创造性心理,增强青年的社会适应性,满足青年交往和参与社会生活的需要,缓解青年与老一辈人的代际差异,进而促进青年对优秀文化传统的学习等方面的角色意义和具体功能。进一步发挥体育在青年心理和社会方面的功能或影响,将是当代体育的主要作用之一。 This article puts forward the sports to develop youth self-awareness, to guide the healthy attitude of young people to life and behavior, to accelerate youth understanding of the guidelines for people living together, to encourage young people’s creative psychology, enhance youth social adaptability, to meet the youth exchanges and participation in society The needs of life, alleviating the inter-generational differences between young people and the older generation, and further promoting the young people’s learning of outstanding cultural traditions and other roles and specific functions. To further develop the function or influence of sports in youth psychology and society will be one of the major roles of contemporary sports.