Family Conflict Resolution Styles Essay

Purpose Conflict is when two or more people’s differences escalate to a level that negatively affects productivity, quality, service, morale or working relationships. Conflict is evitable, but manageable. The techniques that people use to manage conflict can be referred to as conflict styles. The purpose of this study is to investigate if personality and family conflict resolution have an impact on conflict handling styles of college students. Questions to be answered by this study are is there a statistical difference in how personality and students family conflict resolution influence conflict-handling styles of young people (pg.22).
Method
This study used the survey research method. To determine the participant’s personality and family conflict resolution styles, they took the Big Five Inventory (BFI) and the Family Conflict Resolution Scale (FCRS) surveys. The personality types included on the BFI are extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness. The FCRS has a total of 17 true or false questions related to family conflict resolution. The participants from this survey were 359 college students. The students were diverse in age,
The conflict styles included in the Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode instruments are competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding, and accommodating. A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), which is the overall difference between two or more groups, was used to determine if personality and family conflict resolution had an influence on the preferred conflict handling styles. First, the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Modes styles were used as the dependent variables, and the personalities measured by BFI as the independent variable. Then, the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode styles were the dependent variable and the FCRS was the independent variable