Role Overload

§2The established instruments

What the field already uses — named and cited, not reproduced (item wording is copyrighted and withheld pending clearance).

• Task, Job and Role Characteristics Questionnaire (Module 3) — Not specified in text (Moch, 1980b; Moch, Bartunek and Brass, 1979 cited as users)
• Task, Job and Role Characteristics (Michigan Organizational Assessment Questionnaire, Module 3) — Cammann, Fichman, Jenkins and Klesh, 1979; Seashore, Lawler, Mirvis and Cammann, 1982
• Task, Job and Role Characteristics Questionnaire (Module 3) — Not specified in chunk (referenced to source publication)
• Role Overload Scale — Walsh, Taber and Beehr (1980)
• Role Overload Scale — Beehr, Walsh and Taber, 1976
• Task, Job and Role Characteristics Questionnaire (Module 3) — Not explicitly named in this chunk (associated with Moch, Bartunek and Brass, 1979; Moch, 1980b)
• Job Characteristics Questionnaire (Task, Job and Role Characteristics) — Cammann, Fichman, Jenkins, and Klesh (referenced indirectly; original source not fully named in chunk)
• Subjective Quantitative Work Load Scale — Caplan, 1971
• Role Ambiguity, Role Overload and Nonparticipation Scales — Beehr, Walsh and Taber, 1976

§3The math on what we know

Synthesized priors from the live registry: pooled r, studies (k), total N, top study grade, and heterogeneity. Rows flagged for heterogeneity or single-study evidence are directional, not settled — read them as a central tendency.

What role overload predicts