Abstract
Role overload and role underload are relatively common features of American origanizational life. The present investigation involves the simulation of these work conditions in a laboratory setting, and it examines some of the effects which they exert upon individuals' behavior, attitudes, and physiology. In addition, the study traces some differences which obtain among individuals who differ in nAchievement and test anxiety in their reactions to these environmental conditions. The data suggest that role overload is stressful to the overloaded persons and that the effects of this stress are most severely experienced by individuals with specific personality constellations. In addition, the data indicate that the effects of variations in objective work load may be substantially different from the effects of variations in subjective (experienced) work load.
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