PSYC*4160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Heaven Forbid, The Chances
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Conflict styles: patterned responses, or clusters of behaviours, that people use in conflict. Style preference: develop over a person"s lifetime based on complicated blend of personal characteristics, life experiences, and family background: preferences remain relatively consistent over time, depending on context. Rahim (2011) classification of 5 conflict styles. Dual concern model : concern for self and concern for others, avoiding: low concern for self and low concern for the other, obliging: aka accommodation. Low level of concern for self, high level of concern for other: dominating: opposite obliging. Highly concerned with yourself but a low level of concern for the other. Integrating: both your concerns and the others" concerns: compromising: middle ground. Moderate degrees of concern both for yourself and the other. Scores for integrating, compromise, and dominating flow from engaging another. Scores for obliging, avoiding reflect tendency to move away from conflict. Janette: i"m way too stressed to talk about anything right now.
