CONFLICT MANAGEMENT The Psychology of conflict and conflict ...

402 TERRY AND AMIOT
Threat
4
3.8
3.6
3.4
3.2
3
Time 1 Time 2
Low status group
High status group
fiGure 13.3. Mean change over time in threat among members of the low- and
high-status groups.
terms of their job satisfaction more specifically), whereas members of the
high-status group reported an increase in their levels of job satisfaction
and a decrease in their perceptions of threat. These findings are important
not only because they provide a longitudinal proof that low- versus highgroup
members’ patterns of adjustment follow different routes throughout
the merger, but they also suggest that specific motivational processes
(enhancement vs. protection motives) may be involved as low- versus
Job Satisfaction
4.5
4.3
4.1
3.9
3.7
3.5
Time 1 Time 2
Low status group
High status group
fiGure 13.4. Mean change over time in job satisfaction among members of the
low- and high-status group.