Motivation and emotion/Book/2011/Dealing with conflict/Conflict styles survey

Creation

This survey was created by user Courtney.reis 05:24, 2 November 2011 (UTC) for the purposes of the Motivation and Emotion Unit Semester 2011 textbook chapter (see "See Also" section for link to chapter with this quiz) . It was created with the information based on Calhoun, Cann, Norman and Welbourne's (2008) conflict styles model. This purports that 4 styles of conflict exist (Calhoun, Cann, Norman & Welbourne, 2008). These four styles are dominating, obliging, integrative and avoidant (Calhoun et al., 2008). For the quiz, 2 questions based on each style and the information provided on it were created. For example, for the dominating style, the characteristics are high concern for self and low concern for others (Calhoun et al., 2008). THe question created was therefore "I think about my aims and goals over others when in conflict". The same process was followed for each conflict style.

The survey was then created in Wikiversity. For each question, a yes answer gives a certain number of points. A "yes" response to a question depicting Avoidant Style of conflict will gain you 1 point, a yes to Obliging Style will gain you 2 points, a yes to Integrative Style will gain you 3 points and a yes to Dominating Style will gain you 4 points. Any scores which equal more than 8 (the maximum points you can get if you answer yes to only the 2 questions depicting one style of conflict) are said to indicate a style of conflict which utilises more than one kind of conflict style. (I.E if somebody answered yes to both dominating questions and both avoidant questions, they would get a score of 10, indicating they answered yes to alot of questions).

As it is self created and untested, the validity and reliability of this survey is in question. It would need rigorous testing and more evidence before taken as a truly informative quiz.

References

Calhoun, L., Cann, A., Norman, M., & Welbourne, J. (2008). Attachment styles, conflict styles and humour styles: Interrelationships and associations with relationship satisfaction. European Journal of Psychology, 22, 131-146. doi: 10.1002/per.666