The mediating role of perceived stress in relationship between mindfulness and conflict management styles of pre-service teachers

Abstract

The aim of this research is to examine whether perceived stress has a mediating role in the
relationship between mindfulness and conflict management styles. 330 senior students who enrolled
Faculty of Education participated in this study. Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale, The Rahim
Organizational Conflict Inventory-II, Perceived Stress Scale, and Personal Information Form were used
in this study. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient and path analysis which is one of the
structural equation model technics were used for data analysis. To determine the suitability of data set
for path analysis, Pearson product-moment correlation analysis was applied, and it was found that there
isn’t any relationship between mindfulness and obliging style, mindfulness and dominating style,
perceived stress and avoiding style. Therefore, path analysis was performed for integrating and
compromising styles. According to results, perceived stress fully mediates in the relationship between
mindfulness and compromising style and perceived stress partially mediates in the relationship between
mindfulness and integrating style. The study was concluded with limitations and suggestions for future
studies