Perceived procedural justice and conflict management in intimate relationships: The moderating effects of anxious attachment and personal power.

Abstract

Perceived procedural justice (PPJ) was recently associated with collaborative conflict management styles among married and cohabiting spouses. In a correlational study of 160 adults, we tested how avoidant and anxious attachment and personal power perceptions moderate the associations between spouse’s PPJ and participants’ conflict management styles, because previous research (e.g., in organizations) suggested that personal traits and status-related power moderated responsiveness to procedural justice. In our study, participants who perceived themselves as powerful were less responsive to spouse’s PPJ, as was evident by its lower or insignificant correlations with their inclination for collaborative conflict management styles. Anxious attachment also moderated responsiveness to spouse’s PPJ, by changing its nature; anxious participants who reported more spouse’s PPJ did not reciprocate it; they were more dominating and contrary to their peers, no more compromising. Interpretations for these findings are discussed in the article.

Perceived Procedural Justice Enhances Correctional Officers’ Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Correlational and Causal Evidence From Israel

“…In both commander and organization procedural justice questionnaires, the subscales strongly correlated among themselves ( r = .55–.76). This trend was in line with previous studies in Israel, which used similar tools and chose to analyze procedural justice as a unified variable (Nelson et al, 2018, 2014). 5 Therefore, we computed overall mean scores for commander (24 items; α = .95) and organization (21 items; α = .92) procedural justice.…”

“… 1 For more on the relational model, see Nelson et al (2018, 2014). For other conceptualizations of procedural justice, see Colquitt et al (2013) and Baker et al (2015). …”

A trait-interactionist approach to understanding the role of stressors in the personality–CWB relationship.

“…The high hostile attributional style should likewise be activated in environments with high interpersonal conflict. In the presence of interpersonal conflicts, individuals make assessments about the social environment in which the conflict occurs (Nelson et al, 2018). Specifically, individuals make judgments on the neutrality, trust, standing, and voice of the person with whom the conflict occurs (Tyler, 1989).…”