1995 Volume 35 Issue 2 Pages 185-193
Social psychological researches on interpersonal conflicts have been trying to discover the available problem-solving strategies. However these have not been enough discussed on the psychological stress, which accompany with interpersonal conflicts, and stress reduction of them. On the other hand, in the area of health psychology, though interpersonal conflicts have been studied as stressors, these specificity have not been considered sufficiently. The purpose of this paper is to review the findings on interpersonal conflicts and coping strategies in these areas and to propose the study which integrates them. Relations between interpersonal conflicts and social support, which comes from the same social network, were also discussed. The following factors were suggested for further study; (1) The effect of interpersonal conflicts as stressors. (2) The possibility of stress reduction by interpersonal conflict coping strategies. (3) The relation between social support and interpersonal conflict. The necessity to distinguish between life events which occur accidentally and social cognition which is relatively stable was claimed
