An empirical examination of self-reported work stress among U.S. managers.
2000/01/01 by Marcie A. Cavanaugh, Wendy R. Boswell, Mark V. Roehling +1 · 1,983 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Health Professions · Psychology · #Applied psychology #Clinical psychology #Contrast (vision) #Employment and Welfare Studies #Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior #Job satisfaction #Job stress #Occupational stress #Psychology #Sample (material) #Social psychology #Stressor #Workaholism, burnout, and well-being
paper · doi:10.1037/0021-9010.85.1.65
published in Journal of Applied Psychology 85(1), 65-74 (American Psychological Association)
openalex publication_date 2000/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract
This study proposes that self-reported work stress among U.S. managers is differentially related (positively and negatively) to work outcomes depending on the stressors that are being evaluated. Specific hypotheses were derived from this general proposition and tested using a sample of 1,886 U.S. managers and longitudinal data. Regression results indicate that challenge-related self-reported stress is positively related to job satisfaction and negatively related to job search. In contrast, hindrance-related self-reported stress is negatively related to job satisfaction and positively related to job search and turnover. Future research directions are discussed.
Citations
Cited by
- The relationship between safety climate and safety performance: A review
- Extending the challenge–hindrance stressor framework: The role of psychological capital
- Challenge-Hindrance Stressors and Job Outcomes: the Moderating Role of Conscientiousness
- The Bright and Dark Sides of Technostress: A Mixed-Methods Study Involving Healthcare IT
- Work stress and well-being in the hotel industry
- Publish and perish: mental health among communication and media scholars
- Do stressors stifle or facilitate employees' innovative use of enterprise systems: the moderating role of IT mindfulness
- Role clarity, role conflict, and vitality at work: The role of the basic needs
- Interaction effects among multiple job demands: an examination of healthcare workers across different contexts
- Challenge and Hindrance Stressors and Work Outcomes: the Moderating Role of Day-Level Affect
- The negative relationships between employee resilience and ambiguity, complexity, and inter‐agency collaboration
- Examining the Impact of Algorithmic Control on Uber Drivers’ Technostress
- Enabling empowerment over exploitative specialization: The role of total productive maintenance in precarious work contexts
- Social Job Stressors can Foster Employee Well-Being: Introducing the Concept of Social Challenge Stressors
- Increasing student engagement and reducing exhaustion through the provision of demanding but well-resourced training
- A Dynamic View of the Challenge-Hindrance Stressor Framework: a Meta-Analysis of Daily Diary Studies
- Effects of acute stress on group decision-making: Taking stock and looking ahead
- Employee deviance: the impacts of techno-insecurity and moral disengagement
- Job Stressors, Organizational Innovation Climate, and Employees’ Innovative Behavior
- Professional Self-Efficacy as a Predictor of Burnout and Engagement: The Role of Challenge and Hindrance Demands
- Stress from Digital Work: Toward a Unified View of Digital Hindrance Stressors
- Does change incite abusive supervision? The role of transformational change and hindrance stress
- Understanding the effects of specific techno-stressors on strain and job performance: a meta-analysis of the empirical evidence
- Individual Resilience at the Heart of Work Design: Public Servants’ Job Satisfaction and Emotional Exhaustion in a Context of Adversity
- The double‐edged sword of job crafting: The effects of job crafting on changes in job demands and employee well‐being
- Transformational leadership and optimal functioning at work: On the mediating role of employees' perceived job characteristics and motivation
- How does platform leadership promote employee commitment to digital transformation? — A moderated serial mediation model from the stress perspective
- Invisible Household Labor and Ramifications for Adjustment: Mothers as Captains of Households
- Emboldening Public Servants to Challenge Their Job: The Interplay of Supportive Climate and Job Crafting Amidst Smart Working
- Military police investigator perspectives of a new self-reflective approach to strengthening resilience: A qualitative study
- Linking job demands and resources to employee engagement and burnout: A theoretical extension and meta-analytic test.
- One hundred years of work design research: Looking back and looking forward.
- Public Librarian Job Stressors and Burnout Predictors
- Job Characteristics and Job Satisfaction: Understanding the Role of Enterprise Resource Planning System Implementation1
- The recovery paradox: Portraying the complex interplay between job stressors, lack of recovery, and poor well-being
- Exposure to Psychological Aggression at Work and Job Performance: The Mediating Role of Job Attitudes and Personal Health. [europepmc]
- Thriving on challenge stressors? Exploring time pressure and learning demands as antecedents of thriving at work. [europepmc]
- A Meta-Analysis on Antecedents and Outcomes of Detachment from Work. [europepmc]
- Job Stress and Presenteeism among Chinese Healthcare Workers: The Mediating Effects of Affective Commitment. [europepmc]
- Internet-based stress management for distressed managers: results from a randomised controlled trial. [europepmc]
- Enhancing Resources at the Workplace with Health-Promoting Leadership. [europepmc]
- Caring for the elderly at work and home: Can a randomized organizational intervention improve psychological health? [europepmc]
- Consequences of Team Job Demands: Role Ambiguity Climate, Affective Engagement, and Extra-Role Performance. [europepmc]
- The Positive Effect of Authoritarian Leadership on Employee Performance: The Moderating Role of Power Distance. [europepmc]
- Challenging Cognitive Demands at Work, Related Working Conditions, and Employee Well-Being. [europepmc]
- How job stress influences job performance among Chinese healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study. [europepmc]
- Entrepreneurship and Eudaimonic Well-Being: Five Venues for New Science. [europepmc]
- Emotional exhaustion among healthcare professionals: the effects of role ambiguity, work engagement and professional commitment. [europepmc]
- Perceived social support and presenteeism among healthcare workers in China: the mediating role of organizational commitment. [europepmc]
- Role Stress and Turnover Intention of Front-Line Hotel Employees: The Roles of Burnout and Service Climate. [europepmc]
- Transformational Leadership and Employees' Thriving at Work: The Mediating Roles of Challenge-Hindrance Stressors. [europepmc]
- Compulsory Citizenship Behavior and Employee Creativity: Creative Self-Efficacy as a Mediator and Negative Affect as a Moderator. [europepmc]
- Doctors' Mental Health in the Midst of COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Work Demands and Recovery Experiences. [europepmc]
- A Review of the Challenge-Hindrance Stress Model: Recent Advances, Expanded Paradigms, and Recommendations for Future Research. [europepmc]
- Nurses' Occupational Stress and Presenteeism: The Mediating Role of Public Service Motivation and the Moderating Role of Health. [europepmc]
- The Relationship Between Teacher Job Stress and Burnout: A Moderated Mediation Model. [europepmc]
- Work stress, mental health, and employee performance. [europepmc]
- The mediating role of job satisfaction and presenteeism on the relationship between job stress and turnover intention among primary health care workers. [europepmc]
- Resilience and stress as predictors of work engagement: the mediating role of self-efficacy in nurses. [europepmc]
- Does AI-Driven Technostress Promote or Hinder Employees' Artificial Intelligence Adoption Intention? A Moderated Mediation Model of Affective Reactions and Technical Self-Efficacy. [europepmc]
Related