“…There are five styles of conflict resolution: avoidance, accommodating, competing/forcing, compromising, and collaborating styles (Huan and Yazdanifard, 2012;Thomas, Thomas and Schaubhut, 2008;Weitten, Yost-Hammer and Dunn, 2016). In the light of these approaches to conflict resolution, communication process clearly plays a key role both for the creation and resolution of conflicts (Goldstein, 1999) and effective communication is central to this process (Mayer, 2000).…”