While previous relational demography research addressed the benefits of working with similar, high-status, and low-status others based on the notion of the collective self, we argue that working with dissimilar others can help individuals to reduce self-uncertainty in personal relationships. We also argue that this relational benefit of status dissimilarity is more salient for lower-status individuals who have a more salient relational self. These arguments were tested through a longitudinal survey with 253 employees from 41 work teams of a telecommunication company in Mainland China. We found that status dissimilarity increases relational role clarity more for lower-status individuals and that relational role clarity, in turn, increases the individuals' tendency to identify with as well as to continue their role relationships.