WORLDVIEW BASIS OF THE CHOICE OF INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR STRATEGIES IN CONFLICT

Abstract

The article analyzes the relationship between the type of personality worldview and the choice of behavior strategies during the conflict. The choice of behavior strategies in a conflict depends on the characteristics of the personality's worldview. A person consciously or unconsciously prefers those behavior strategies that confirm his worldview, even if such a choice can exacerbate the conflict. The strategies of avoiding, competing, accommodating, compromising, collaborating (proposed by K. Thomas and R. Kilmann) are the basis of the article.
A worldview is a form of general human self-determination in the world; an interdisciplinary philosophical and psychological approach is used to analyze it. Its species diversity is described and analyzed. Based on the carriers, a worldview can be individual, collective and group. According to moral and value orientations, the worldview is divided into selfish, altruistic, humanistic, antihuman, cynical, chauvinistic and others. By structure, the worldview is holistic, fragmentary, internally coherent, and contradictory. In philosophy, the worldview is divided by the degree of adequacy of the perception of reality – realistic, fantastic, distorted, and adequate to reality. Historical types of worldview: mythological, religious, philosophical, scientific. It is the worldview that determines the general tendencies of the behavior of the participants in the conflict, which will not depend on the situation or changes in the circumstances of the conflict situation.
An individual with an altruistic, humanistic, holistic or internally coherent worldview is inclined to use soft strategies of behavior in the conflict. These are strategies of compromising or collaborating. These strategies require an attentive, subjective and dialogical attitude towards the opponent. Such an attitude is possible in the case of integrity and harmony of one's own worldviews, understanding of one's place in it.
On the other hand, fragmentary, contradictory, selfish, antihuman or cynical types of worldview contribute to the conscious or unconscious use of a harsh style of behavior in conflict. The strategy of competing involves the devaluation, depersonalization, objectification of the opponent. The strategies of competing, accommodating and avoiding are associated with significant psychological changes that occur during escalation. The constructive end of conflict situations involves not only rationalizing one's behavior in specific circumstances, but also working on one's worldview, awareness of oneself, one's values and needs, one's place in the world.