Conflict style

How you handle disagreements

Researchers describe five ways to handle a conflict: competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding and accommodating. None is always right, but some combinations work better for couples than others. This test shows which ones you reach for.

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What you will see

Five scores from 0 to 100 and your strongest mode.

• Competing
• Collaborating
• Compromising
• Avoiding
• Accommodating

Test details

• 15 questions
• 3 min

About this test

Original items on the five conflict-handling modes (Thomas and Kilmann, 1974; the dual-concern model of Rahim), three per mode.

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