Confirmatory factor analysis with LISREL 7 of data from 1,188 managers on the 21 items of the Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory-I provided support for the convergent and discriminant validities of this measure of the three types of organizational conflict (intrapersonal, intragroup, and intergroup).
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