Conflict Style
How hard you push for your own outcome, and how much weight you give the other person's.
- Questions
- 18
- 4 min
- Dual-concern model
What this is
The dual-concern model is public theory: the five familiar modes are regions of a plane made by concern for your own outcome and concern for the other person's. The Thomas–Kilmann instrument that operationalises it is commercially licensed and is not reproduced here. These are original items, and the mode is derived from the two concerns rather than asked for directly.
Where it comes from
written down, not impliedDual-concern model
The dual-concern model — concern for your own outcome weighed against concern for the other person's — comes from Blake and Mouton and from Pruitt and Rubin. The Thomas-Kilmann instrument built on it is commercially licensed and not used.
Written for this app
- Reliability
- not measured
- Factor structure
- not measured
- Validity
- not measured
Further reading
- Blake, R. R., & Mouton, J. S. (1964). The managerial grid: Key orientations for achieving production through people (opens in a new tab). Houston, TX: Gulf Publishingoriginal source
- Pruitt, D. G., & Rubin, J. Z. (1986). Social conflict: Escalation, stalemate, and settlement (opens in a new tab). New York: Random Houseoriginal source
- De Dreu, C. K. W., Weingart, L. R., & Kwon, S. (2000). Influence of social motives on integrative negotiation: A meta-analytic review and test of two theories (opens in a new tab). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78(5), 889–905review
Read the result as a structured version of what you said, not as a measurement of you.
Why these questions carry no evidence
Every questionnaire in this app writes its own items, because the framework behind an instrument is usually public while the published questionnaire is copyrighted. That is the honest way to build it and it has a cost worth stating plainly: reliability and validity belong to a specific set of questions given to a specific group of people, not to the name of the idea behind them. These questions have never been given to a sample, have no norms, and have no evidence that they measure what they are named after.