COMM 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Passive-Aggressive Behavior
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Exists when people in i-thou or i-you relationships have different views, interests, or goals and feel a need to resolve those differences. It is not conflict if we don"t recognize disagreement or anger or if we repress it so completely that it is not expressed directly or indirectly. Occurs only between people who perceive themselves as interdependent at the time of the conflict. Conflict is more than just having differences; we differ with people about many things, but this doesn"t invariably lead to conflict. Conflict involves two perceptions; the perception that our concerns are at odds with those of another person and the perception that we and the other person must resolve differences. The presence of conflict does not indicate that a relationship is unhealthy or in trouble. Actually, engaging in conflict indicates that people are involved with each other. Most of us have attitudes about conflict that reflect scripts we learned in our families.
