What is indirect fighting? Provide an example

What will be an ideal response?

Indirect fighting is a conflict style that represents a high concern for one's own goals and low concern for one's partner's goals when a person avoids or accommodates during a conflict, but then behaves aggressively in another context. For example, if a boss asks an employee to do something that makes them mad, the employee might agree to do the task, but then retaliate in a passive-aggressive manner by doing the task poorly or calling in sick and avoiding the task all together.

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The situation at hand and the behavior of the other person in the conflict are more powerful determinants of a person’s conflict style than gender

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When you give the gist of someone else's statement in your own words, rather than quoting that person verbatim, you are ________.

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