SUMMARY of Rasa Matusienė Master‘s thesis ‘The Particularities of Social Interaction Obstacles (Conflict, Stress, Expression of Ego States) When Working as a Sport Manager‘ Keywords: social interaction, conflict, stress, Ego states, sport manager. Object of research: particularities of social interaction obstacles (conflict, stress, expression of Ego states) when working as a sport manager. Problem (research) question: How age, professional experience of the sport managers and number of subordinates influence the expression of social interaction obstacles? Hypotheses: 1. The choice of conflict solution strategies largely depends on the age of sport managers: younger sport managers (in comparison with average age of those investigated) more often choose cooperation strategy, whereas older sport managers more often tend to choose compromise strategy. 2. The age of sport managers, professional experience, the number of subordinates and the size of organization has no considerable influence on sport manager‘s inclination to stress. 3. Professional experience has a great deal of influence on the expression of Ego states: Adult Ego state expression is more characteristic to the sport managers with less work experience (in comparison with the average work experience of those investigated), whereas the expression of the Patronizing Father Ego state appears to be considerably stronger among the managers with more professional experience. Aim of research is to disclose the... [to full text]