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Conflict Handling Measure (CHM) for Situational Conflict Handling: Validation Notes and Materials.

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  • 1. Department of Psychology, HMU Health and Medical University Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany.
  • 2. ROR icon Universität der Bundeswehr München

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This Record is a living collection of validation notes and accompanying materials for the five-item Conflict Handling Measure (CHM) assessing situational conflict handling (avoiding, integrating, obliging, dominating, compromising). Each validation note is provided as a separate PDF with linked analysis outputs (tables) and a brief documentation.


Included in Version 1: Validation Note 1 (Germany; N = 2,396): correlational evidence for convergent/discriminant validity.

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