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| The expressed struggle of interconnected parties who perceive incompatible goals and interference from one or more parties in attaining those goals |
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| Conflict that is characterized by escalation, retaliation, domination, compeition, cross-complaining, defensiveness, and inflexibility |
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| When you can no longer think clearly because conflict triggers intense emotional reactions |
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| Conflict that is characterized by communication that is cooperative, supportive and flexible |
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| Impulses that push and pull us in opposite directions simultaneously within our relationships with others |
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| Predictability-novelty Dialectic |
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| The desire for both stability and change within a relationship |
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| Connection-autonomy Dialectic |
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| The desire to come together with another person (connection) yet remain apart, independent, and in control of one's own life (autonomy) |
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| Openness-Closedness Dialectic |
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| The tension in relationships between accessibility and privacy |
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| Inclusion-seclusion dialectic |
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| The desire to spend time alone with one's partner and also spend time together with others outside of the relationship |
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| Conventionality-uniqueness Dialectic |
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| Wanting your relationship to be perceived as the same yet different from other relationship |
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| Revelation-concealment Dialectic |
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| The dilemma you face when wanting to share information about a relationship with those outisde the relationship yet also wanting to conceal the relationship for various reasons |
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| Both contradictory forces (dialectics) are addressed without compromising on either impulse |
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| A strategy for managing dialectics in which one contradictory impulse is given attention an another is ignored |
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| A strategy to manage dialectics in which certain parts of a relationship are divided into separate domains and some of those domains are declared off-limits |
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| Communication style of conflict management |
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| A typical way an individual addresses a conflict |
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| Style of conflict management in which parties work together to maximize the attainment of goals for all involved in the conflict |
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| A strategy of the collaborating style of conflict management in which there is an overt recognition of a conflict and a direct effort to find creative ways to satisfy all parties in the conflict |
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| A collaborating strategy that finds alternatives that meet the goals of all parties in a conflict |
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| A collaborative strategy that attempts to clam the agitated feelings of those involved in a conflict |
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| Yielding to the needs and desires of others during a conflict |
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| Attempting to resolve a conflict by giving up something to get something in return |
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| Sidestepping or ignoring conflict |
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| A form of the avoiding style of conflict management exhibited by refusing to discuss problems or by physically leaving when the other person is complaining, disagreeing, or attacking |
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| You give back what you get from others |
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| Letting fo of feelings of revenge and desires to retaliate |
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