The Role of Taking Conflict Personally in Imagined Interactions About Conflict

• In Event: Irony, Anger, Rumination, Fear, and Fury: Taking Social Cognition Personally

Abstract

A person may use imagined interactions to work through a conflict situation. One factor that may affect the nature of IIs about conflict is the tendency among some individuals to take conflict personally. Results indicate that trait TCP is correlated with rumination, that a variety of significant relationships appear between trait TCP and II characteristics, and that trait TCP predicts state TCP immediately after a conflict-oriented II.

Authors

• Kelly Wallenfelsz, Western Illinois University

• Dale Hample, University of Maryland