An agreeable disposition may be associated with positive conflict resolution strategies. For example, adolescents who had rated themselves as warm, cooperative and trusting (high agreeable) at the beginning of one three-month study were more likely to engage in negotiation-and problem-solving behaviors during conflict than were adolescents who had rated themselves as cold, inconsiderate, and rude (low agreeable) (Graziano, Jensen-Campbell, & Hair, 1996). The sample consisted of 124 ethnically diverse, same-sex adolescent dyads, ages 17 -19. In addition, a longitudinal study of 167 African American, Mexican American, and Caucasian American adolescents in sixth through eighth grade, found that endorsement of power-assertion strategies during conflict was more likely in adolescents with lower levels of agreeableness than in adolescents with higher levels of agreeableness (Jensen-Campbell, Graziano, & Hair, 1996). In analyses of the same longitudinal study, Jensen-Campbell and Graziano (2001) found that adolescents with an agreeable personality style were more likely to compromise during conflicts with peers, less likely to walk away without addressing the problem, less likely to use physical force, and less likely to engage in esteem threatening remarks. Ultimately, these approaches to conflict resulted in higher rates of conflict resolution and friendship stability (Jensen-Campbell & Graziano, 2001).