Destructive Conflict

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What makes humans, so much more different than animals is the fact that they have numerous different types of personalities. Dictonary.com defines personalities as the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others. Moreover, because of this, not everyone has the same type of personality from the other; this can cause positive and negative problems. This allows the world to be different and allows humans to be able to tackle with different problems in numerous ways. However, this also causes numerous different types of conflicts because everyone behaves and approaches life differently. I recently took the Myers-Briggs personality assessment and got the personality of ENFJ. Conflict occurs in relationships when disagreements are …show more content…

He had to leave the room because of how harsh the conversation went. Afterward, my friends and I questioned if I should have gotten in that argument or if it was better to say nothing. This conflict definitely was a personal conflict since it was myself defending myself and my friends, but it also was a destructive conflict. According to Wynn (2015), “Destructive conflict is the result of behaviors that create hostility or prevent problem solving” (142). Moreover, I communicated really poorly in this conversation since I was too focused on my friends and my own interests, and because of this I acted too harshly. After finding out that my personality is an ENFJ it explains why I acted the way I did for that conflict. The ENFJ personality according to https://www.16personalities.com/enfj-personality is the Protagonist personality; this explains why I acted so harshly in defending my friends. I thought that I was justified in the augment because the goal of protecting my friends, what I didn't realize is because of this goal I acted the way I did. After reading the conflict strategy I realized I could have done a lot more things to have that conflict to move more smoothly. Knowing the information about the conflict management strategies I could have taken the situation in numerous ways. I could have let the person say what he wanted to say and

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