1. Jealousy and envy
2. Conflicting attitudes and values

In some cases, conflicts can bring positive effects by improving a person’s social health, as well as his/her communication and problem-solving skills. It allows a person to learn how to get along with other people who have different sets of beliefs, principles, and values. As a result, they can strengthen their ties and relationships by working through their differences and solving conflicts together.

Conflicts bring negative results when they cause a person to become stressed. When a person becomes stressed, he/she has the tendency to lose sleep and to experience frequent headaches.

Moreover, conflicts affect someone’s emotional and social health. This occurs because it causes a person to feel anger, frustration, fear, and emotional pain. These negative feelings can drive someone to lose his/her job, to show violent behaviors, and to cause physical harm to other people.

Adapting behavior can prevent conflict from arising. It allows you to adjust to the situation without stressing yourself over some arguments.

Adapting behavior to avoid conflicts

Walking away from conflicts

The environment, culture, and personal values makes a person. If they have a good set of values, the conflict between two people won’t have to escalate to a point that friendship can’t be saved. The people around the two parties involved in a conflict will affect the outcome of a conflict. Whatever they say will be part of the communication between the conflicting people. The media can be a good influence to avoid a conflict before it starts.

Influences affect the outcome of a conflict

A common teen conflict is about jealousy and envy when a friend starts hanging out with other people. They lose time for each other or does not do the same things anymore. If one side can’t adjust to this change they may have a “falling out”. Another is conflict of a teen with their parents about curfew. They want to spend more time with their friends or boyfriend/girlfriend that cause arguments in the family. There are other types of conflicts like conflicts over personal items, respect, and attitudes.

Common teen conflicts