A four-style behavior questionnaire is used as an assessment instrument to help in predicting trainees' behavior. It is argued that the four-style behavior theory has been a helpful training tool and it can be used with measurable success in a number of subject areas: interpersonal communication, performance appraisal, and conflict resolution.…

Investigated how female parents in dual-career families view their roles. Compared the effectiveness of two strategies for dealing with conflict. Subjects using a role redefinition strategy did not differ from subjects using a role expansion strategy in self-reports of role conflict and coping effectiveness. (Author)

Addresses the importance of organizational negotiations for mental health agencies and the values of mental health managers which may affect their attitudes toward that process. Presents data from a workshop on negotiations. Describes learning experiences to assist mental health managers integrate their values with negotiating skills. (Author)

Investigated patterns of conflict style and conflict outcome as associated with degree of marital satisfaction. Young married couples (N=244) responded to a questionnaire. Found four types of conflict resolution patterns. Data analysis indicated that marital satisfaction was most highly related to intimacy and aggression. (RC)

To assess the efficacy of an interpersonal skill training program, adult offenders were randomly assigned to either interpersonal effectiveness training or waiting-list control. Results indicated interpersonal effectiveness training group superiority on Interpersonal Behavior Role-Play Test training and generalization assessment items. Findings…

The problem-solving process within counseling was analyzed by extending a problem-solving model proposed by D'Zurilla and Goldfried. The counseling process is a problem-solving event, a perspective that may lead researchers into new research problems and greater specificity. Research from psychological, industrial, and counseling fields delineated…

Compares a school superintendent's unsuccessful management of conflict with community groups and the successful methods of a city manager. Notes differences in the two administrators' attitudes toward conflict management, public involvement, and professional status. (RW)

In this study previously unacquainted two-year-olds formed a group structure coincident with a stabilization of social relations. The children's formation of a dominance hierarchy for object conflicts, reflected in part by an increasing group structural rigidity, was marked by a decrease in the likelihood of resistance to aggression. (Author/DB)

The potential for considerable marital dissatisfaction among wives is clearly present. Wives want less controlling behavior from their husbands than the husbands prefer to engage in. They want to move closer to their husbands and want their husbands to share more intimately with them. (Author)

Examines a sample of roommate conflicts in terms of a theoretical approach to communication in interpersonal conflict, which emphasizes the role of attributional processes. Associations between the conflict strategies reported, their attributions for conflicts, and conflict outcomes were in the expected direction. (JMF)

Offers a conceptual model based on two encompassing perspectives: (1) negotiating as a set of dilemmas that are derived from the "cooperation-fighting" polarity and (2) negotiating as a composition of four kinds of activities, each connected to a different intention. (Author)

Reports on a study describing whom principals have conflicts with, what the conflicts are about, and how they are managed. Among the results are that women principals have conflicts with different people than do males and that elementary principals have conflicts with different people than do secondary. (IRT)

A framework for understanding and changing conflict between teachers and parents of handicapped children is presented. Specific steps are seen to include reassessing blame-oriented assumptions about the parent's motives, understanding the stress experienced by parents of exceptional children, developing a sense of shared goals and feelings…

A conference on terrorism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was taken over by terrorists, hostages were seized, and negotiations failed. The goal of the conference was to teach about international terrorism. The events of the simulation are described and the exercise's accomplishments are discussed. (MLW)

A principal area of conflict exists between the full employment and improved jobs goals of government employment policy and de jure and de facto immigration policies. Reconciliation of these differences is vital as the number of immigrants continues to increase. (SK)