Journal of Managerial Psychology: Volume 37 Issue 5

Guest editorial: Are challenges hindering us? The limitations of models that categorize work stressors

Ben Searle, Michelle Tuckey, Paula Brough

Understanding business owners' challenge and hindrance appraisals

Jacqueline M. Jumelet, Marjan J. Gorgievski, Arnold B. Bakker

The aim is to expand the challenge-hindrance framework and develop a coherent theoretical framework that explains individual differences in the way small business owners appraise…

The importance of appraisal in stressor–well-being relationships and the examination of personality traits as boundary conditions

Rachel Williamson Smith, Michael M. DeNunzio, Nicholas J. Haynes, Aneeqa Thiele

The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating role of appraisals in three stressor–well-being relationships: (1) the mediating role of challenge appraisals in the…

All's well that ends well!? Moderating effects of goal progress on the relation between challenge and hindrance appraisal and well-being

Michael Kronenwett, Thomas Rigotti

Drawing from both the transactional theory of stress and the conservation of resources theory, this paper sets out to investigate the role of demand-specific challenge and…

Challenge-hindrance stressors and career initiative: a moderated mediation model

Yan Liu, Lei Ren

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between challenge-hindrance stressors and employees’ career initiative while incorporating the mediating role of positive…

Tenets of self-determination theory as a mechanism behind challenge demands: a within-person study

Chris Giebe, Thomas Rigotti

This study investigated a mechanism by which challenge stressors may affect employee well-being outcomes. This study tested a within-person longitudinal model in which the effects…

Methodological and conceptual issues in studying effort-reward fit

Jonas W.B. Lang, Sander Van Hoeck, J. Malte Runge

Research on effort-reward “imbalance” (ERI) has gained popularity in the occupational health literature, and authors typically use effort-reward ratios (ERRs) to study this…