CORRELATION OF CONFLICT INDICATORS WITH A WIDE RANGE OF PERSONALITY TRAITS

Abstract

Theoretical and methodological analysis of scientific literature has shown that there is a great deal of information about the personality traits, which belong to manifestations of conflict and qualities closely related, and are contained in the factors of the personality, such as the Freiburg Personality Inventory (FPI). This article presents the results of the theoretical and empirical research on conflict and personality traits of a wide range of future psychologists. Psychological analysis of conflict proneness as a phenomenon has been proposed. Conflictness is interpreted as a personality trait that is characterized by such psychic activities, emotions, thoughts, messages, plans, attitudes, which spur them to conflict behavior, callous, and physical activity. Conflictness is a selective orientation of an individual towards behavior that corresponds to the conflict experiences, thoughts, intentions, and attitudes. From the standpoint of continually-hierarchical approach, in the qualitative structure of conflict, the following components were empirically identified and described: emotional, cognitive, and behavioral and the types of conflict differed by the combination of its indicators. The research used a complex of psychodiagnostic techniques to identify conflict predisposition indicators and demonstrate them: “Differential Diagnosis of Propensity to Conflict” (developed by Olha Sannikova and Tetiana Ulianova), “Personal Aggressiveness and Conflictness” (developed by Evgenii Iliin and Pavel Kovalev). There have been established interrelations between conflict proneness indices and personal qualities that follow its demonstrations: aggressiveness, neuroticism, unrestraint, weak self-control and self-regulation of the emotional sphere. A qualitative analysis was carried out, which allowed grouping the subjects according to a certain attribute and studying individual psychological peculiarities of conflict as personality properties.