What Characterizes the Conflict Management of Couples in Committed Relationships

question 89

Multiple Choice

What characterizes the conflict management of couples in committed relationships?

• A) Men are more likely to bring up conflicts, and women are more likely to settle conflicts.
• B) Men use a mixture of emotional and rational appeals in settling conflicts, but women try to establish dominance to win arguments.
• C) Women are more likely to bring up conflicts and to use conflict management to try to avoid upsetting their husbands.
• D) Women are likely to avoid conflict and issues that might bring up conflict.

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Definitions:

Variance

The average of the squared differences from the Mean, a statistical measurement of the spread between numbers in a data set.

Computational Formula

A formula used to compute statistical measures that often simplifies the arithmetic process.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or how spread out numbers are in a dataset.

Interquartile Range

A measure of statistical dispersion, representing the difference between the 25th and 75th percentiles of a dataset.