The correlation between school administrators’ solution-focused approach and conflict management strategies

Abstract

This study aimed to determine whether there was a correlation between school administrators’ solution-focused approach and their preferences for conflict management strategies. The research design of this study was the correlational survey, which is one of the quantitative research designs. The sample of this study included 248 school administrators, non-parametric tests and correlation analysis were used to analyze the data together with descriptive statistics. The results showed that there was a significant difference among groups of school administrators in terms of the variable of gender, age and seniority. The data relating to the solution-focused approach and conflict management strategies were analyzed and presented separately in detail. In terms of examining the correlations between solution-focused approach and conflict management strategies preferred by school administrators, Spearman’s correlation analysis was conducted and the results showed that there were both positive and negative relationships among those variables.