The Mediating Effects of Job Satisfaction and Propensity to Leave on Role Stress-Job Performance Relationships: Combining Meta-Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling

A major limitation of all past quantitative reviews of the relationships among role stresses and job performance is that none of them has investigated theoretically meaningful mediators of these relationships. As a consequence, the nature of the processes leading from role stresses to job performance has not yet been systematically explored. Our article addresses this lacuna in past meta-analytic studies (for a recent review of these meta-analytic studies, see Gilboa, Shirom, Fried, & Cooper, 2008). We use structural equation modeling (SEM) to compare the fit of several alternative role stress → job satisfaction and propensity to leave → job performance models to a meta-analytic data set.

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