Much of the substance of conflict falls under the domain of social psychology, and previous research has made great progress in understanding the processes that underlie intergroup relations. Several high-status researchers have argued for the necessity of social psychological research to augment and inform other theories of violent conflict, mainly those used by political scientists and Intern...

Despite the gradual increase of research on social conflicts, psychometric characteristics of social-conflict scales have not been extensively examined, especially in the adolescent population. In this study, the internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and criterion-related validity of 2 established social-conflict scales were examined in a sample of 581 Chinese adolescents. There were h...

Violent instances of intergroup conflict in recent memory have usually involved cultural groups, but theory and research on the psychology of intergroup relations is largely culture free. The two most prominent theories, realistic group conflict theory (RGCT) and social identity/self-categorization theory (SIT/SCT) provide fundamental insight into basic processes in intergroup relations: (1) th...

adopting the critical discourse analysis framework, in general, andfairclough’s (1989) critical text analysis, in particular, the current study aims atexamining 3 aspects of meaning, namely social relations, subject positions, andcontents in the conversation as well as vocabulary and grammar parts of passages 1(an american textbook) and first certificate (a british textbook) to find out whether...

the aim of the research is to determine the concept of conflict, conflict management scope and approaches in managerial approaches based on islamic view. to achieve the goal, content analysis has been used. research data was collected from the books and articles in the context of management, human relations and organizational behavior reflecting islamic view. a number of 19 books and articles t...