%0 Journal Article %T The relationship between the school administrators¡¯ anger control and stress coping methods and their conflict management style %A B¨¹lent G¨¹nd¨¹z %A Binali Tun£¿ %A Yusuf £¿nand£¿ %J International Journal of Human Sciences %D 2013 %I International Journal of Human Sciences %X The purpose of this study is to determine the school administrators¡¯ approaches of stress coping and anger control that what extent predicted their conflict-management styles. For this purpose, three different scales those are ¡°Organizational Conflict Management Scale¡±, ¡°The State-Trait Anger Scale¡± and ¡°Stress Coping Style Scale¡± were applied to the 279 school administrators who work in the province of Mersin. The results show that administrators¡¯ anger control and stress coping approaches is significantly associated with and predicted the conflict management styles. Administrators¡¯ anger control level is significant predictor of "integration" style, and emotion-focused stress management is significant predictors of ¡°compromises", "domination" and "avoidance" styles. However, problem-focused (positive) and emotion-focused (negative) approaches are significant predictors of the "compromise" style. Administrators who uses integration style has low levels of anger and can control their anger. Administrators who tend to emotion-focused to stress cope uses compromise, avoidance, and domination styles. However, the administrators who tend to emotion-focused and problem-focused to stress cope use consensus style. %K Conflict management style %K anger control %K stress coping %K school administrators %U http://www.insanbilimleri.com/ojs/index.php/uib/article/view/2537