| Learning Objective #1: identify the contextual factors of conflict in dating relationships among Korean women. | |||
| Learning Objective #2: analyze conflict tactics in dating relationship among Korean women. |
A survey was conducted to identify the contextual factors of conflict and conflict tactics in dating relationship in 204 college women. Reasons for the conflict in dating relationship included differences in religion, values, personalities, and hobbies. Conflict tactics were classified into four groups: conversation, rude behaviors, threatening, and violent behaviors. Only 4.9% of interviewed women tried conversation as a conflict resolution, 62.1% of the subjects involved either rude behaviors or threatening, and 18.9 involved violent behaviors. Self esteem was significantly associated with the conflict resolution pattern: the higher the self-esteem of the women, the more tend to use non-violent tactics. Those who had witnessed their fathers violence to their mother and those who had witnessed their mothers violent behavior to their father while teen-agers tended to involve violent tactics. Those who attached to the dating relationship tended to involve more violent tactics. Women as frequently as men involved violent behavior when they experience conflicts in their dating relationships. Women may involve violent behavior mostly because they do not know how to express their negative feelings and how to resolve the conflicts non-violently. Pre-marital counseling can be useful for both male and female college students to facilitate their ability to resolve conflicts in dating relationship, thus improve the quality and satisfaction of their dating relationship and marital relationships in their future.
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