“…Stress research has traditionally focused on the negative side of stressors (the stressor-strain perspective), which posits that stressors are strongly unpleasant and undesirable experiences (Schaubroeck, Cotton, & Jennings, 1989). The findings reported in relation to this perspective have not acknowledged any positive contributions (e.g., Dubinsky, Michaels, Kotabe, Lim, & Moon, 1992;Johnston, Parasuraman, Futrell, & Black, 1990;Kemery, Bedeian, Mossholder, & Touliatos, 1985). Instead, role stressors have been found to reduce organizational commitment (Agarwal, 1993), job satisfaction (Abdel-Halim, 1981), and performance (Behrman & Perreault, 1984;Jackson & Schuler, 1985).…”