The Effect of Self-Construal and Relationship on Psychological Motivations of Dispute Resolution

Authors

Jared Syed Noetzel, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Abigail Herzfeld, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Ashley Votruba, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

4-2020

Document Type

Poster

Citation

Noetzel, J.S., Herzfeld, A., & Votruba, A. (2020, April). The Effect of Self-Construal and Relationship on Psychological Motivations of Dispute Resolution. Poster presentation, UCARE Research Fair, Spring 2020, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Retrieved from UNL Digital Commons.

Comments

Copyright 2020 by the authors.

Abstract

Culture acts as a lens that can influence many aspects of an individual’s life, such as their health perceptions, cognition, and even their preferred style of conflict resolution. We predict that an individual’s self-construal and the relationship to the conflicting party affects their psychological motivations for choosing a conflict style. Previous research suggests that the aforementioned goals can drive dispute resolution preferences. We hypothesized that participants with high interdependent self-construal would rate goals of animosity reduction and relationship restoration higher than participants low in interdependent self-constural, while participants with high independent self-construal would rate the goal of process control higher than those low in independent self-construal.