AN ACCENTUATED PERSONALITY’S TRAITS AS A FACTOR OF CONFLICT MANAGEMENT STYLES AT WOMEN STUDENTS (A UKRAINIAN SAMPLE)

Address for correspondence, e-mail: editpsychas@gmail.com Copyright: © Tetiana Dutkevich, Iuliia Romanova This is an Open Access journal, all articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. ABSTRACT The article purpose is to present and discuss the results of the empirical study on the frequency, structure of women students’ accentuated traits and such traits influence on their conflict management styles. The study was conducted with 104 undergraduate women students aged of 21-23 years from March 2019 to May 2019. Schmieschek Questionnaire and Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument were used. The article present contradictory facts confirming and, at the same time, denying the significant differences in accentuated traits characteristic for women students in Ukraine and in the Russian Federation. So, it confirms the necessity to diagnose accentuated traits for every new sample with certain age, gender, political, socio-economic, socio-psychological and others peculiarities. Seven out of ten accentuated traits (hyperthymia, rigidity, emotiveness, pedantry, anxiety, cyclothymia, excitation) influence to a some degree on women students’ conflict management styles, besides of others factors. Hyperthymia, rigidity and emotiveness influence the most strongly. Pedantry, anxiety, cyclothymia, excitation have moderate influence. Demonstrativeness, dysthymia, exaltation do not influence considerably. Rigidity, emotiveness, pedantry, and anxiety support some conflict management styles. Hyperthymia, cyclothymia, excitation make a barrier for certain styles. Four types of connections between women students’ accentuated traits and their conflict management styles were formed. These are strong attractive (rigidity and competing, emotiveness and accommodating) and strong blocking (excitation and accommodating, demonstrativeness and avoiding), moderate attractive (anxiety and competing, pedantry and competing, dysthymia and avoiding) and moderate blocking (hyperthymia and avoiding, cyclothymia and accommodating) types.

be very productive in view of its holistic approach to the interpretation of a personality as a biosocial creature with both biologically determined (temperament) and socially defined (character) traits which are combined and intertwined. This provides space for the widespread use of psychological diagnostics of accentuations in medical practice both in propaedeutics and in the treatment of various personality disorders, emotional-volitional states, somatic diseases, etc. (Akiskal et al., 2005;Brandes & Bienvenu, 2006;Clark et al., 1994;Hosier et al., 2011;Lizeretti et al., 2014;Shembeleva, 2002, etc.). The accentuation means special individual traits which have tendency to be modified to abnormal psyche states. An accentuated personality has potential possibility to both socially approved and to socially convicted acts (Leongard, 1989, p. 17-18).
One of the leading spheres of an accentuated personality's traits manifestation is interpersonal relations, including interpersonal conflicts. The study by E.A. Kovalenko (2007) is an example of research in this area; it shows that the accentuation of certain personality's traits correlates significantly with such communicative indicators as interrelations of individual and social attitudes, the modality of emotional reactions, operational difficulties during communication.
There are links between anxiety disorders and emotional intelligence (Lizeretti et al., 2014). In particular, emotional intelligence skills are an important factor in the aetiology of personality disorders and, on contrary, pathological personality traits tamper the development of emotional skills. Anxious people master better skills in identification and facilitation and worse skills of emotional comprehension and regulation (which is important during conflict management). This research proves the role of anxiety accentuation in conflict situations, which is important sphere of emotional intelligence. The researchers conclude that the patients with anxiety disorders need to develop their emotional reasoning skills, which simultaneously are a tool of their treatments.
The emotional and volitional traits of adolescents with certain types of character accentuations were studied and described (Badiiev, 2015). The emotional and volitional traits of people with some character accentuations do not influence their activities, but those of people with the other accentuations can enforce or reduce it. For example, emotional and volitional traits of hysteroid or hyperthymic people do not influence their communications and activities. Meantime, these traits reduce communications and activities of schizoid, cycloid, labile, sensitive people. And finally the emotional and volitional traits are able to improve communications and activities of psychasthenic persons.
The correlations between stress tolerance and character accentuations were revealed at students. There is a negative correlation between stress tolerance and the emotive type; and there is a positive one between stress tolerance and pedantic, demonstrative, excitable and dysthymic accentuations.
Therefore emotive people are less stress resistant, and people with pedantic, demonstrative, exci- TKCMI consists of 30 pairs of statements. The respondent must choose only one of two statements in a pair. Every conflict behavioural style is determined by choosing of appropriate statements and its level is estimated by accumulated points (from 1 to 12).
Results. Taking  We determined that the number of women students with accentuated traits was 73.1% of the total sample. In the corresponding studies conducted previously, the data on people with accentuations varied. The accentuation frequency of 62% was marked at women students of 16-38 year old (Doubchuk, 2016), that of 90% was determined for the sample of 14-17-year old pupils (Badiyev, 2015). We calculated Spearman rank correlation coefficients to reveal correlations between SQ scales and TKCMI scales for the total sample of women students and the subsample consisted only of accentuated women students (tables 2 and 3). We supposed that correlations for the subsample would be stronger than those for the total sample.

Scales TKCMI (сonflict management styles) Competing
Collaborating Compromising Avoiding Accommodating Using both, power and direction indicators, we obtained four types of links between women students' accentuated traits and their conflict management styles (table   5). These are strong attractive (rigidity and competing, emotiveness and accommodating) and strong blocking Table 4 The comparison of correlation coefficients for the total sample and the subsample of women students

Table 5
The types of links between women students' accentuated traits and conflict management styles When an accentuated trait blocks one of the conflict management styles, a person uses four others. It's about hyperthymic, cyclothymic, excited women students.

Correlated scales Indicators
Meantime, when accentuated trait makes women student to choose certain style she rejects the four others. This is applied to rigid, emotive, anxious and pedantic accentuations.
The last case presents the most negative accentuated traits influence on women students' conflict behaviour. Hence these women students are the most limited in choosing a conflict management style appropriate to the situation but not to their accentuated traits. The number and significance of correlations are higher for the subsample than those for the total sample of women students. Hence, the higher level of accentuated traits influences stronger on women students' conflict management styles.

Conclusions
Accentuated personalities' traits, such as hyperthymia, rigidity, emotiveness, pedantry, anxiety, cyclothymia, and excitation influence to some degree on women students' conflict management styles besides of others factors.
Every accentuated trait influences on a women student's conflict management style in its own way. Such