Getting stressed · Sustained overload
Meta-analysis Pooled evidence
Challenges and obstacles are different kinds of pressure
Among employees in workplace studies, demands experienced as challenges had a positive direct relationship with performance, partly offset through strain, while demands experienced as hindrances had a negative relationship with performance, as found using a meta-analysis of workplace studies.
Details
- Who was studied
- Employees across workplace studies
- Observation window
- Pooled studies
- What was measured
- Challenge and hindrance stressors, strain, motivation, performance
- What this establishes
- A pattern pooled across studies
Limits: The abstract does not give the number of studies; most underlying studies are correlational.
What it does not show: This establishes that the kind of demand matters as well as the amount, but not that challenge-type pressure is harmless.
Relationship to Calmistry
A caution against treating all pressure as one quantity. Piezo (pressure turning into action) is a Calmistry construct this research only borders on.
Calmistry hypothesis · not yet tested in Calmistry's own instrument
Related findings
- Fits with Even productive pressure was tiring
Checked against the original on 2026-10-08 · DOI 10.5465/amj.2005.18803921
LePine, Podsakoff & LePine (2005), Academy of Management Journal · Original publication