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Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between the Big Five personality traits Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism and the five conflict styles developed by Thomas-Kilmann: Accommodating, Avoiding, Compromising, Collaborating and Competing. The participants consisted of 128 students of the Linnaeus University in Växjö. A questionnaire consisting of two parts were used for this study: Part one consist of a personality-test developed from Lewis R. Goldberg’s Big-five scale, and part two where the participant is asked to fill out Thomas-Kilmanns conflict style test. Significant results, calculated with Bonferroni’s correction, were found between Extraversion-Accommodating (negative), Extraversion-Avoiding (negative) and Agreeableness-Collaborating (positive). These correlations were still significant with the participants’ gender equate, which indicate the importance of personality in the study of conflict style.