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CONFLICTALK: An instrument for measuring youth and adolescent conflict management message styles
Author(s) -
Kimsey William D.,
Fuller Rex M.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
conflict resolution quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.323
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1541-1508
pISSN - 1536-5581
DOI - 10.1002/crq.49
Subject(s) - conflict management , psychology , social psychology , applied psychology , developmental psychology , political science , law
An instrument for assessing youth and adolescent conflict management message styles is presented. The CONFLICTALK instrument is intended as a tool fortraining in school‐based peer mediator–conflict manager programs. Data collected from elementary, middle, and high school grades indicatethat the scales used in CONFLICTALK measure typical responses to interpersonal and group conflict. Construct validity, using factor analysis, suggeststhat CONFLICTALK discriminates three conflict styles: (1) adversarial, (2) collaborative, and (3) avoidance acrosselementary and middle school levels. Conflict message wording for high school students appears less reliable.