Open AccessAn Investigation of Factors Responsible for Conflicts Among the University Students
Author(s) -
Samreen Mehmood,
Maksal Minaz,
Madeeha Murad
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
global regional review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-7030
pISSN - 2616-955X
DOI - 10.31703/grr.2019(iv-ii).53
Subject(s) - interpersonal communication , psychology , context (archaeology) , interpersonal relationship , conflict management , social psychology , higher education , sociology , political science , social science , geography , archaeology , law
This study was conducted through quantitative study approach. The purpose of this study was to investigate the need of peace education in context of conflict management at university level. Major objectives of the study were to know about the prevailing situation of interpersonal and intra-personal conflicts among the teaching faculty and teachers of BS level in the university and to investigate the factors which are responsible for conflicts among the students and teachers. Research findings are based on questionnaire responses from the faculty members and students. Kindall's Tau B and Tau C were utilized for analysis of collected data. The study revealed that 81.1 % of the faculty members and 83.4% students agreed about the exciting conflicts among the students and teachers at university level. Their responses on symmetric measure also testified the fact that the result was found significant which means that conflicts exist and reflected the factors in their responses. Findings show that students have more interpersonal conflicts and there are many factors included political and academic reasons.