Confirmatory factor analysis with LISREL 7 of data from 1,219 managers on the 28 items of the Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory–II provided support for the convergent and discriminant validities of this instrument which measures the styles of handling interpersonal conflict and their invariance across referent roles and organizational levels.
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