Den personliga konflikten
The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between the Big Five personality traits Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism and the five conflict styles developed by Thomas-Kilmann: Accommodating, Avoiding, Compromising, Collaborating and Competing. The participants consisted of 128 students of the Linnaeus University in Växjö. A questionnaire consisting of two parts were used for this study: Part one consist of a personality-test developed from Lewis R. Goldberg?s Big-five scale, and part two where the participant is asked to fill out Thomas-Kilmanns conflict style test. Significant results, calculated with Bonferroni?s correction, were found between Extraversion-Accommodating (negative), Extraversion-Avoiding (negative) and Agreeableness-Collaborating (positive). These correlations were still significant with the participants? gender equate, which indicate the importance of personality in the study of conflict style.