PERSONALITY AND INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT - AGGRESSIVENESS, SELF-MONITORING, AND SITUATIONAL VARIABLES

Sixty-sir male Japanese students verbally interacted with a confederat e opponent, who expressed unreasonable requests politely or impolitely . Half of the participants was pressed to respond immediately, while t he other half was not. Personality variables were found to determine t he participants' responses to the conflict in interactions with the si tuational variables; that is, verbal aggressiveness increased hostile responses only when the confederate behaved in an impolite manner, and self-monitoring increased integrative responses only when the partici pants were not pressed to respond quickly.