The influence of individual personality characteristics of subjects of the educational process on conflict interaction in the teacher-student dyad

The relevance of this study is determined by the fact that conflicts, as a social phenomenon, are quite common in educational institutions. The school acts as a leading social institution in the process of training and educating the younger generation. In this regard, the student, even without being a direct participant in the conflict, can feel its negative consequences and thereby internalize negative behavioral stereotypes. The team of teachers faces a particularly acute problem of finding constructive ways to resolve conflicts, which in turn can negatively affect not only the personality of the students themselves, but also the educational process as a whole. The purpose of this article is to study the relationship between conflict behavior and individual personality traits of subjects of the educational process. Thanks to the conducted psychological experiment, definitions of the concepts of subjects of the educational process (teacher and student) were given; the features of the course of conflicts in the primary school teacherstudent dyad are highlighted and characterized; the role of the individual characteristics of a teacher’s personality in the educational process is considered; An empirical study of the relationship between conflict behavior and individual personality traits of a teacher was conducted; the features of the individual properties of students were analyzed through the prism of the teacher’s behavior style; An analysis of the results of an empirical study of the relationship between conflict behavior and individual personality traits of the teacher and student was carried out. The following methods were used in the study: the «Questionnaire for determining team leadership style» method by A.L. Zhuravleva; methodology «Personal aggressiveness and conflict» E.P. Ilyin and P.A. Kovaleva; Bass-Darkey Hostility Inventory, BDHI. In the presented psychological study, various methods of analyzing the information obtained were used, including qualitative and quantitative approaches, as well as mathematical methods of data processing.