To test whether conflict management styles is able to predict actual behaviors in
business negotiation, hierarchical regression analysis was conducted and Figures 1
and 2 present the regression analysis results for Canadian sample and Chinese sample.
In order to assess the independent and incremental effects of conflict management
styles on the two sets of dependent variables – negotiation process and outcomes, and
for the exploratory nature of this study, the hierarchical regression analysis was
appropriate. In the regression analysis, gender was always entered first, followed by 271 conflict management styles, where gender was treated as one control variable because
of its inconsistent impact on negotiation processes (cf. Carnevale and Lawer, 1986; Neu et al., 1988).