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Cross-cultural research the preferable strategies in students conflict
This paper presents results of empirical study of the relationship between cultural features and choice of conflict strategy. The study explores the orientations of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions (power distance, individualism versus collectivism, masculinity versus femininity, uncertainty avoidance, long-term versus short-term orientation, and indulgence versus restraint). Combinations of five conflict approaches (collaborating, dominating, compromising, avoiding, and accommodating) of two concerns model are adopted to present the strategies of conflict behavior. Students from Russian, German and Israeli Universities are chosen as the focus group. 68 Russian, 38 Israeli, 49 German, and 39 MASA students took part in this research. A survey as the main method of our research is used. Our research is based on the following questionnaires: the author’s questionnaire "Strategy of conflict behavior", the questionnaire VSM13 of G.Hofstede, Survey Values Schwartz. It is discovered that Russian, German and Israeli students prefer to use different strategies of conflict behavior in various learning conflict situations. The results shows as well that this choice of strategy of conflict behavior has a significant relation with such indicators of culture, as individualism, masculinity, power distance, long-term and uncertainty avoidance.