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Gender and Conflict Style

Author: Julie Tietz
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Terms to Know
Accommodating

A conflict resolution style in which one party helps to meet another's needs at the expense of his or her own.

Avoiding

A conflict resolution style in which a party does not make any attempt to address or resolve the conflict.

Collaborating

A conflict resolution style in which parties work jointly to try to meet all of each others needs.

Competing

A conflict resolution style in which one party seeks to meet his or her own needs at the expense of another party's needs (sometimes also referred to as forcing).

Compromising

A conflict resolution style in which parties agree to sacrifice some of their needs in exchange for having others met.

Gender Associated Conflict Style

A conflict style considered to be "right, proper, or correct" by a given culture of members of different genders to use/adopt.