Adult attachment and handling interpersonal conflict: differences between 658 soldiers and 478 employees
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-6554.2010.01.021
- VernacularTitle:成人依恋与人际冲突处理策略:658名军人与478名企业员工的差异
- Author:
Heping QIN
;
Yaming GUO
;
Lu WAN
;
Xiangyun ZHAI
;
Jia LI
;
Tonggui LI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Attachment avoidance;
Interpersonal conflict resolutions styles;
Soldiers employees
- From:
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science
2010;19(1):53-55
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To explore the correlations of adult attachment with interpersonal conflict resolu-tions styles and differences between soldiers and employees. Methods Relationship questionnaire (RQ),experi-ence in close relationships (ECR),and Rahim handling interpersonal conflict inventory (ROCI-II) were adminis-tered to 543 employees from different enterprises in Beijing and Liaoning province and 701 soldiers. Results The results suggested the distribution of adult attachment style between soldiers and employees were significantly differ-ent. Compared with employees, there were higher dismissing hat lower secure rate in soldier sample. On handling interpersonal conflict strategy indices, such as integrating, avoiding, dominating and obliging but not compromising (t_((1120))=1.97, P<0.05), there were no significant differences between soldiers and employees. Only on in-tegrating, there were significant ditterenees among four adult attachment styles (F_((3,1009))=10.18, P<0.001).Attachment avoidance had a significantly negative correlation with integrating, obliging and compromising (r=-0.31,-0.11,-0.13 respectively), while attachment anxiety had moderate but significant correlations with a-voiding, dominating and obliging and compromising (r=0. 16,0.35, 0.35, 0.39, 0.30 respectively). Conclu-sion Adult attachment is closely related to handling interpersonal conflict strategies, and there was difference on compromising between soldiers and employees.
