Chapter 2 Communication Options In Conflict. Yj h Flashcards
Intangible Conflict Issues
On gut feelings like love, respect and self-esteem as well as topics like power, cooperation
Relationship Issues
Rules and norms and boundaries that partners have overtly agreed on
Personality Issue
Behaviors such as being dominating, introverted, selfish.
Often do not result in mutually satisfying outcomes
Behavioral Issues
Specific individual actions we can observe: how we have done something and what we have done
Undesired Repetitive Pattern
Negative scripted events or feeling of being trapped in a set of circumstances beyond one’s control
Avoiding and Accommodating Conflict
Avoiding initiating conflict or give in when conflicts arise
Gunny-sacking
Storing up hurts and anger until they explode
Avoidance and Accomodating
Schismogenesis
Escalation of the cycle in Competitive Conflict; when the behaviors of one person intensify the behaviors of another person
Passive-Aggressive Communication
Ability to impose one’s will on others through the use of verbal or nonverbal acts that appear to avoid an open conflict or accommodate to the desires of others, but in actuality are carried out with the intention of inflicting physical or psychological pain, injury, or suffering.
Compromising
No one totally wins or loses but settles for a workable solution rather than finding a totally mutually satisfying solution
BOTH parties LOSE at least some of what they would have liked to achieve
Collaboration
Using integrative behaviors and developing mutually satisfying agreements to solve the problem once and for all
Personal Stress
Refers to wear and tear on one emotionally and physically
Relationship Stress
Occurs outside the individual and refers to wear and tear on a relationship
Psychodynamic Theory
People experience Conflict because of the tension arising from their intra-personal states (emotional psychological) states
Id
Unconscious, inherited; seeks pleasure and avoids pain
Superego
Ideal and the conscience with morals
Ego
Reconciles between both Id and Superego
Misplaced Conflict
Arguing about conflicts other than the one in hand
Frustration
Internal battle between the I’d and superego, that erupts as conflict
Displacement
Taking your anger on someone perceived as less powerful
Attribution Theory
People act as they do in conflicts because of the inferences they make about others based on their behavior
Blaming others
Attribution error
Making internal attribution when we don’t like wat others did and external when we are impressed
Social Exchange Theory
People evaluate their relationships in terms of their value; the costs and benefits from the relationship
Homeostasis
System maintains itself in the pursuit of a goal
Instrumental goals
Require the opponent to remove a specific obstacle blocking completion of a task
Relational goals
Attempts to gain power and trust as the relationship between those in the conflict is established
Identity goals
How those in the conflict view each other
Process goals
Alternative ways to manage conflicts
Defensiveness
State of emotional arousal that occurs when we believe that the other person is attacking us and that affects our behavior
Use of I statements
Assertive Communication
Ability of one to speak up about their needs, wants and desires in way that does not interfere with others interests and rights
Empathy
Considering the others person beliefs and feelings so that we see the situation from their perspective