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Introduction: Generally, sports managers are characterized by specific psychological traits. Among the strong points of female managers we can mention; conscientiousness, dynamism, personal charm, and physical presence. Among the weak points of female managers, and strong points of male managers we mention:; intelligence, intuition, sense of responsibility and tenacity. Objectives: We tried to show the presence of some differences in psychological characteristics in male and female sport managers. Specifically we proposed the hypothesis of some differences in psychological traits of male and female sport managers. Subjects and methods: In our study we surveyed a sample of 200 sport managers from North-Western Region of Transylvania, Romania. On this sample we applied the Swedish personality instrument- Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP) comprising 135 items and 15 scales. Results: Female sport managers reported higher scores on the psychic anxiety, psychasthenia, muscle tension, somatic anxiety, and lower scores on monotony avoidance. Conclusions: In the psychological profile of female sport managers we point out the high level of neuroticism, that’s means, emotional instability, and the preferences of male sport managers for monotony avoidance and the intense need for sensation seeking and novel experiences.

Keywords: sport manager, gender differences, personality traits, KSP, emotional instability, sensation seeking