Comparative Conflict Resolution Tactics among Monolinguals and Bilinguals

Abstract

Bilingualism refers to individuals’ talent to understand and generate two languages naturally. This study is aimed at comparing the tactics of conflict resolution between monolingual and bilingual. In this study of cross-sectional analysis 30 monolingual subjects (3 males, 27 females) and 30 bilingual subjects (3 males, 27 females) were selected by available sampling method and have responded to the Comparison of Conflict Tactics questionnaire (Murray. Ayashtras). For data analysis, multivariate analysis of variance test was used. Results showed that there is significant differences between bilingual and monolingual in individuals’ reasoning tactics in conflict resolution of self and father, (p = 0.01) and parents (0.04). There is significant difference between the two group of bilingual and monolingual in verbal aggression tactics in conflict resolution of self and father (p = 0.014) , mother& self (p = 0.007); self &mother (p = 0.005) and parents (0p = 0.02).In aggression tactic was not seen as significant difference between bilinguals and monolinguals. Also, between age, sex and education with conflict resolution of reasoning, verbal aggression, physical aggression, in all forms, there was no significant difference between the two groups. Results indicated that monolingual people were better in half of conflict resolution tactics of reasoning and verbal aggression compared to the bilinguals and this requires trainings for conflict resolution of bilingual community.