Abstract

This study was intended to investigate the effect of position involvement in the perception of social conflict situation. Thus, two experimental conditions were manipulated ; position involvement condition, position non-involvement condition. In position involvement condition, the subjects were given the role to represent a party, but, in position non-involvement condition, they were given the role to mediate two parties in which supported exemination system or recommendation system as 'a way of incoming employee selection(attitude topic)'. As a result, in the former, they attributed their conflict partner's behavior to his disposition, but, in the latter, they attributed it to his situation. And, in position involvement condition, their affect to him was polarized, but, in position non-involvement condition, it was neutralized. Finally, in the subjects' conflict resolution strategies, position involvement condition differed from position non-involvement condition. That is, in the former, the subjects tried to resolve the conflict situation with bipolarity resolution strategies, but, in the latter, they tried to resolve it with duality resolution strategies.