Written Assignment: Analyzing Interpersonal Relationships & Conflict Styles
Part I:
Watch the Video "Please Don't Lie to Me" at MyCommunicationLab
? What can you talk about? Can you talk about the family finances? Grandpa's drinking? Your sister's lifestyle?
? How can you talk about something? Can you joke about your brother's disability? Can you address directly questions of family history and family skeletons?
? To whom can you talk? Can you talk openly to extended family members such as cousins and aunts and uncles? Can you talk to close neighbors about family health issues?
Part II:
Using the questions provided in Table 1, write a concise reflection about which style describes you best. Consider how adopting a different style may be positive or negative for you.
TABLE 1 Five Conflict Styles and Their Consequences
Here are the five conflict styles and their likely consequences or outcomes (Blake & Mouton (1984). Do you have a general conflict style or does your conflict style vary with your relationship to the other person? For example, are you likely to engage in conflict differently depending on the other person, whether friend, romantic partner, work colleague, and so on?
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You
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Other
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Competing: great concern for your needs; little concern for other's
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Win
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Lose
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Avoiding: little concern for your own or other's needs
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Lose
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Lose
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Compromising: some concern for your own and other's needs
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Win and lose
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Win and lose
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Accommodating: great concern for other's needs; little concern for your own
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Lose
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Win
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Collaborating: great concern for your own and other's needs
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Win
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Win
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Both Parts I & II should be included in the same Word (.docx) file and should total about one double-spaced page in length.