Describe the five conflict styles. Which is the ideal style and why?

Question

Please provide the best answer for the statement.

Answer 1

Answer: The five conflict styles are competing, avoiding, accommodating, collaborating, and compromising.
The competing style (I win, you lose) represents great concern for your own needs and desires
and little for those of others. As long as your needs are met, the conflict has been dealt with successfully (for you).
Using the avoiding style (I lose, you lose) suggests that you are relatively unconcerned with your own or with the other’s needs or desires. The avoider shrinks from any real communication about the problem, changes the topic when the problem is brought up, and generally withdraws from
the scene both psychologically and physically.
In the accommodating style (I lose, you win), you sacrifice your own needs for the sake of the needs of the other person. Your major purpose is to maintain harmony and peace in the relationship or group.
In the collaborating style (I win, you win), your concern is with both your own and the other person’s needs. It is often considered the ideal, as it allows each person’s needs to be satisfied. It promotes resolutions in which you both get something.
The compromising style (I win and lose, you win and lose) is in the middle; there’s some concern for your own needs and some concern for the other’s needs. This strategy is likely to result in maintaining peace, but there also will be dissatisfaction over the inevitable losses that have to be endured.