Data on the Rahim Organizational Conflirt Inventory II, which measures the five styles of handling interpersonal conflict, such as integrating, obliging, dominating, avoiding, and compromising, were collected from a random national sample of 1,219 executives. Scales for the five conflict styles were constructed by an unweighted method (item averaging) and complete estimation and shorthand methods of factor scaling. A comparison of reliability and validity of the five scales of conflict styles constructed by the three methods indicated no superiority of the factor scaling methods over the unweighted method.
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