ABSTRACT
The present study examined the differential impact of types of role conflict upon job satisfaction, job-related anxiety, and propensity to leave the organization. 111 supermarket department managers responded to a mailed questionnaire containing role-conflict items and outcome measures. Factor analysis of the 8-item conflict scale resulted in three role-conflict dimensions: intersender, intrasender, and person-role. Stepwise regression analysis of each outcome variable on the three conflict subscales showed that the order in which conflict subscales entered the equation was different when different outcomes were the criterion. Use of subscales rather than a general conflict measure yields more information as to the nature and results of role stress.
Subject(s)
Conflict, Psychological , Role , Adult , Anxiety/psychology , Female , Humans , Job Satisfaction , MaleABSTRACT
Disturbed and normal adolescent girls from a working class background were compared on three measures of sex role as well as self and ideal personality characteristics. Both disturbed and normal girls had an appropriate sex-role identity on two of the measures. An association was found between normal status and high self scores on nurturance, affiliation, and endurance, and between pathological status and succorance. Although differences existed on some self reported traits between pathological and normal status, all groups tended to see the ideal female teenager as having an equitable balance among the personality variables and higher than they rated themselves on deference, nurturance, and affiliation and lower on autonomy. It was concluded that the presence or absence of certain adaptive personality traits may be more important than sex role disturbance in pathology.
