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Figure 4. Coping strategies by minority-majority status.
Mistrust and higher Negative Intimacy scores than minorities when discuss-
ing short missions, but minorities on long missions were more negative than
their hosts.- Mission phase: Disaggregating minority and majority crewmembers, we
found that both decreased in Trust from the pre- to the postflight portion of
their narrative, but the drop was marginally (p = .08) steeper among minori-
ties. On Mistrust, majorities remained stable while minorities showed a dra-
matic increase, especially from the in-flight to the postflight stages. There
was also a marginal (p = .07) interaction effect on Negative Intimacy, with
minorities showing a steep increase (again, especially from in- to postflight),
while majorities started out much higher in the preflight stage and remained
stable at that level.