Conflict Handling Intensions among Teacher Trainees

Abstract

The present study was intended to investigate the impact of gender, nature of course and locality of residence on conflict handling intensions of teacher trainees in Krishna district. A sample of 600 teacher trainees studying in different colleges of education was collected randomly. Conflict handling intensions of the teacher trainees were appraised Conflict style Questionnaire adopted from Johnson & Johnson. The obtained data were quantitatively analyzed by descriptive statistics such as Mean, S.D and inferential statistics such as ANOVA where ever necessary to test the hypotheses. The study revealed that there is significant impact of gender, nature of course and locality of residence on conflict handling intensions. Women, arts and rural teacher trainees are found to use Withdrawing, Smoothing and Compromising Conflict handling intensions more often when compare to men, science and urban teacher trainees. Men, science and urban teacher trainees use Forcing and Confronting Conflict handling intensions more frequently than women, arts and rural teacher trainees.