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Abstract: Introduction: Generally mangers have specific psychological characteristics. Among the social and psychological factors that differentiate the psychological profile of sports managers we can include the psychological characteristics. Personality traits have a certain contribution to the differentiation of psychological profile of sports managers, by the way of positive and negative psychological traits. These characteristics can be evaluated by using a well validated personality test, specific for the sport domain. Objectives: Our study tried to show the presence of some specific psychological traits in sports managers from Romania, in comparison with data obtained in Spain. Specifically we proposed to test the hypothesis of the existence of some differences concerning the psychological traits of sports managers from Romania in contrast with subject from other European countries. 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. In the survey we distributed 310 questionnaires and only 200 were returned. Results: Romanian sports managers reported a higher level of social desirability, psychic anxiety, monotony avoidance, impulsiveness, inhibition of aggressiveness, and guilt in contrast with subjects from Spanish males from the normative sample for KSP in Spain. . Muscular tension, indirect aggression, verbal aggression and irritability were lower in Romanian sports managers than in Spanish males sample. Conclusions: The psychological profile of sports mangers shows some favorable differences concerning the level of socialization, muscular tension, verbal aggressiveness and educational level. In the same time, to the majority of other 15 scales of Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP) we don’t observed any important statistical differences between Romanian sport managers and subjects from Spain, Sweden. In sum, the psychological characteristics of Romanian sports managers are a little better than foreign subjects from available studies using KSP from Spain and Sweden.
Keywords: Sports manager, comparative study, personality traits, KSP, positive psychological traits in managers, negative psychological characteristics in managers |
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