Students’ conflicts, causes and ways of solution in physical education lessons

School is one of the most important institutions of human socialization where students learn different behaviour models quickly on communicating with others. Thus, conflicts among children, adolescents and young people are unavoidable in the modern school, but the outcomes of this phenomenon can often be determined by the cognition of the characteristics and essence of the conflict as a phenomenon and process. Successful socialization of young people in schools is impossible without known any ways of conflict solution and trying to manage them. The purpose of this research was to reveal the inclination of 15-16-year-old students to conflicts as well as determine the causes of conflicts and peculiarities of the choice of behaviour strategies in physical education lessons. 325 students from comprehensive schools of the big Lithuanian cities, 172 girls and 153 boys participated in the research. The results of the research showed that students-girls and boys that participate in physical education lessons have an inclination to conflicts. The girls emphasized the main causes for conflicts: blank contents of the teachers’ communication, tactless, rough, authoritarian style of work and insufficient attention and sensitivity to the students. Meanwhile, the boys indicated the teachers’ disregard for the students, non-observation of the unity of words and acts and the teachers’ dishonesty and lying. Moreover, the results of the conflict research revealed the 15-16-year-old students-girls choose cooperation first and search for compromises second in conflict situations. Meanwhile, the boys of the same age indicated competition first and chose the strategy of conflict avoidance second