Age impact to distributive conflict resolution
International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED) |
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2015 |
The purpose of this study was to examine age differences in two types of conflict situation: equal power and unequal power conflict situations, in regards to distributives resolution strategies reported by pupils (students from grades 6, 7 and 9; N = 586) and students (1 - 4 years university students; N = 238). The results showed that older adolescents tended to report higher rates of direct accommodating and avoiding. Younger adolescents tended to report higher rates of direct humiliating, damaging and direct and indirect physical and verbal offensive contending. conflict resolution strategies than students did. The analyses show no age impact in displaying indirect humiliation and damaging. Overall there was a greater use of accommodating in the unequal power dyads. Avoiding strategy does not show meaningful difference. Although there offensive contending and direct humiliating contending were more frequent in the dyads of equal power, however power dyads seem to have no impact on indirect damaging and humiliating.