Situational ethics

About: Situational ethics is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4023 publications have been published within this topic receiving 145379 citations.

Analyzing interpersonal conflict: Nature of awareness, type of initiating event, situational perceptions, and management styles

Abstract: This study explored the interrelationships among three sets of variables: situational perceptions, conflict management styles, and two factors reflecting the initiation of conflict (i.e., nature of awareness and type of initiating event). While styles were not related to either initiating factor, the data indicated that the nature of awareness and the type of initiating event were related to one another and that several situational perceptions were related to these initiating factors. Analyses confirmed that situational perceptions provided a more powerful account of styles than did the initiating factors. This study also examined the associations between two methods of measuring situational perceptions and two prominent conflict management typologies. Results mostly confirmed hypotheses. With one exception, five Likert‐type measures of situational perceptions were positively related to measures developed from open‐ended descriptions of the conflict. Open‐ended measures of three types of “problem‐solving ...

In Search of Situational Effects in Outdoor Recreation: Different Methods, Different Results

Abstract: Relationships between outdoor recreation situations and experiences have been the of widespread research interest. Although scores of studies are directed at understanding linkages between various situational conditions and satisfaction, crowding, various experiences, empirical evidence has not been highly supportive of consistent relationships across studies. The lack of persuasive evidence regarding situational may be an artifact of the traditional research design associated with outdoor research. Specifically, the posttrip mailback questionnaire is limited in its to assess situational effects because of (a) reliance on long-term memory, (b) use of global measures, and (c) inability to distinguish situational from differences. Within the empirical portion of this article, analyses using time of encounters and perceived crowding illustrate contrasting results between a questionnaire and a diary-like method from a sample of overnight backcountry users at Grand Canyon National Park. Results of the mailback...