Abstract
Development of society and its inhabitants is negatively affected by prevailing conflicts. Although, enormous research and theoretical work regarding macro level factors leading to conflict formation is available, still, research is needed to investigate the problem at individual level. The current study aims at finding out personal characters resulting in conflict formation. For this cross sectional qualitative study, data were collected from participants through interview guide. As, totality of the personality characters of individual cannot be negative or anti-social, therefore, the current study aimed at finding out negatively interacting characters which frequently ends in conflict formation. The study found that, incongruous modes of interaction, egocentrism, bad attitude, negative personal tendencies, ideological differences, psychological problems, and personality disorder; were the most common characters of personality that not only had negative effects on cognitive abilities of individuals rather jolt negative energies in their behavior and led to conflict formation. Furthermore, the study suggests that many conflicting situations in our daily lives could be avoided if we leash these negative personality characters and keep focusing on reforming and redirecting our behavior. For this purpose, further research is needed to find out ways and techniques which could replace negative personality characters by positive ones to ensure peacebuilding.
Highlights
Human behavior is not a spontaneous flow of energies, rather, it expresses how individual got socialized, how his natural propensities are, and what kind of personality characteristics he possesses
The present study is an endeavor to fill the gap of identifying individual level factors in conflict formation as against the previous research works done by psychologists and social scientists on macro level
Demographic Findings Related to Conflict Formation participants from the study group expressed that, urban areas observed more conflicts than rural areas, mainly because of dispositional differences which existed due to diverse nature of population in urban area 53.12%, problems in personal understanding due to less primary relations in urban areas 25%, behavior differences which existed because of cultural variability 18.75%, complex life style with lesser space for others 3.12%
Summary
Human behavior is not a spontaneous flow of energies, rather, it expresses how individual got socialized, how his natural propensities are, and what kind of personality characteristics he possesses. Conflict tendencies are outcomes of either problems in individual’s socialization, personality or incompatible cognitive processes due to psychological abnormalities (Miller, 1948). The current research study was undertaken to probe out individual’s personal characters and their manifestation that lead to conflict formation. It would help educate the readers regarding behavior patterns that shatter peace among people and create negative social relations. The present study is an endeavor to fill the gap of identifying individual level factors in conflict formation as against the previous research works done by psychologists and social scientists on macro level
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