Veronica Phillips 

February 28th, 2016 

Conflict Management in Disney Movie: Inside Out

In various Disney Movies created by Pixar, conflict introduction through personal relationships is shown by characters throughout the movies in order to reach a certain point and allow the viewer to understand the learning lesson given. Growing up as a child, I have always viewed Disney movies as movies that taught me not only life lessons at a young age, but also how to manage a conflict and resolve it with a solution that each side of the parties can agree upon. Inside Out created by Pixar is a movie that has tremendous conflict throughout the film but is later overcome by a character that did not believe in herself in any way. When both of the characters Sadness and Joy are lost in a maze together, Joy begins to blame Sadness for them being lost and not being able to be home where they should be with there friends. Sadness begins to feel guilty and acknowledges that there is a conflict and what the conflict is on each side of the parties. According to the article The Impact of Relational Holism On Conflict Management Styles in Colleagueship And Friendship, “Differentiation is acknowledging that there is a conflict and what the differing sides of the conflict are. It is the first step to conflict management because it is the part of the process when both sides get a grasp of the other side of the party.” Once the conflict is announced between both Joy and Sadness, they begin to work as a team and try to figure out how they can return home in time for them to save Riley from danger. This movie has taught me that although there may be a conflict between you and someone else, there is a solution to that conflict waiting to be resolved. Although conflict is temporary, there is a strategy that can be used in order to overcome that conflict and allow both party’s to understand one another when even working in a team to solve that conflict just as Joy and Sadness in Inside Out. 

Source:Kim, Sang-Yeon, Jihyun Kim, and Tae-Seop Lim. "The Impact Of Relational Holism On Conflict Management Styles In Colleagueship And Friendship: A Cross-Cultural Study." Studies In Communication Sciences 13.(2013): 58-66. ScienceDirect. Web. Feb. 2016.