Predicting interpersonal conflict resolution styles from personality characteristics

"Cultural Values, Emotional Intelligence, and Conflict Handling Styles: A Global Study"

“…The results of our study show the largest effect size related to the relationship between collectivism and specific conflict styles, namely integrating (r = .13) and obliging (r = .13), are smaller than or comparable to average effect sizes (e.g., Antonioni, 1998;Park and Antonioni, 2007;Wood and Bell, 2008) obtained for different personality traits and an integrating style (extraversion r = .20; openness r = .18; agreeableness r = .18) and an obliging style (openness r = .17; agreeableness r = .14). While the individualism/ collectivism dimension has been researched extensively, our findings suggest that compared to the widely neglected dimensions of uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation the predictive power is much smaller in terms of effect sizes.…”

“…Our study contributes to a more comprehensive and more integrative understanding of earlier research on the role of culture and emotional intelligence in conflict handling. conflict handling style is largely predetermined by individual characteristics, such as personality traits (Antonioni, 1998;Park & Antonioni, 2007;Wood & Bell, 2008) and demographic characteristics (Gbadamosi, Baghestan, & Al-Mabrouk, 2014). As conflicts are often highly emotional events, one stream of research has focused on the influence of emotional intelligence on individuals' preferences for conflict handling styles (e.g., Jordan & Troth, 2004;Shih & Susanto, 2010;Yu, Sardessai, Lu, & Zhao, 2006).…”

An examination of relational-interdependent self-construal, communal strength, and pro-relationship behaviors in friendships

“…Individual differences are associated with tendencies to engage in pro-relationship behaviors (e.g., Kumashiro et al, 2002;Wood & Bell, 2008). However, no research had yet examined the association of relational individual differences (i.e., RISC) with pro-relationship behaviors or the mechanisms by which RISC may be related to increases in such behavior.…”

“…For example, individual differences in agreeableness and self-respect have been linked to accommodating and sacrificial behaviors (e.g., Kumashiro et al, 2002;Wood & Bell, 2008). However, little theory or research has attempted to understand how individual differences in RISC are associated with use of maintenance behaviors.…”

NegoManage: A System for Supporting Bilateral Negotiations

“…These tools are psychometric instruments requiring the users to fill in a questionnaire that is then scored, which leads to the identification of the psychological profile of the potential negotiators. Such tools are widely used in research and practice, since they measure the negotiators' approach towards conflict situations (see Wood and Bell 2008;Wachowicz and Wu 2010). However, these tools cannot be considered fully reliable since the questionnaire results are not stable.…”