Personality Types of Coping Behaviour in an Interpersonal Conflict

The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social and Community Studies. 2013. Vol. 7. No. 2. P. 61–73.

Hachaturova M. R.

Coping behaviour plays a great role in solving an interpersonal conflict. Time perspective, hardiness, self-efficacy, achievement motivation, affiliation motivation, and locus of control can be considered personality coping-resources. The combination of them and the degree of their intensity can be connected with the choice of specific coping strategies. Therefore, the goal of the research was investigating personality types of coping behaviour in an interpersonal conflict. The results of the empirical research (331 respondents) are given in this article. Classification of personality types showing various features of coping behaviour in a situation of an interpersonal conflict was the result of the research. Four personality types were differentiated - dependent, steady, unsteady and diffuse. The research allows us to suggest that the hardiness level has become the main factor in the choice of coping strategies. When it is not high, a person chooses emotional strategies, and strongly pronounced hardiness determines the choice of cognitive strategies.

Keywords: межличностный конфликт, самоэффективность, локус контроля, временная перспектива, копинг-стратегии, жизнестойкость, hardiness, мотивация достижения, личностный тип, personality type, achievement motivation, interpersonal conflict, time perspective, affiliation motivation, locus of control, мотивация аффилиации, coping strategies