Adult Personal Conflict Style Inventory Essay

From the beginning of time, there has been conflict in one form or another. For as long as humans have interacted with one another, conflict has manifested itself orally. Even as I look across campus, I can see several students engaged in conflict today. Scholars from all different fields have studied the abundant aspects of conflict, including how it arises to how it is diffused. However, scholars have not been able to come up with a universal definition of conflict. As the world chances, the definition changes as well and the more it is studied in different capacities, it seems the definition is manipulated as scholars see fit.
Communication experts Littlejohn and Domenici define conflict as “the state of being challenged by human difference. We experience conflict when differences matter and are potentially problematic for us.” However, Littlejohn and Domenici believe that

I believe that is why I try my best to limit conflict in my life in general, although there is no way to eliminate it fully. In fact, after taking the Adult Personal Conflict Style Inventory, I was not surprised by my results at all. They showed that I am more likely to use accommodating and compromising styles and less likely to use s competing style when faced with a conflict. That is not to say I am perfect and never experience conflict, but I am more likely to use these styles to diffuse the situation as quickly as possible. After identifying and defining these styles, it was easy to draw connections between these terms used by scholars, and my own personal experiences when I have been faced with conflict.
Using an accommodating style is characterized as maintaining “low assertiveness and high cooperativeness. That is to say that when a person chooses this approach to managing conflict, they are willing to forego their own concerns to satisfy the concerns of others” (True