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.

Key words: Mindfulness, conflict management, stress, pre-service teacher, path analysis