ABSTRACT
Conflict and ambiguity tend to pose for the individual special problems of adjustment. How each man feels about these problems and how he reacts to them depends upon two further sets of factors. The first of these is his personality, considered as a set of predispositions formed throughout his previous life history. The second includes all his contemporaneous relationships with the members of his role set…. Both these sets of factors will affect the behavior of his role sender toward him. Both will also tend to condition his reactions to conflict and ambiguity, and both, finally, may themselves be modified by the particular coping patterns he adopts in response to role conflict and ambiguity of long standing.
