The mediating effects of job satisfaction and propensity to leave on role stress-job performance relationships: Combining meta-analysis and structural equation modeling.

A major limitation of all past quantitative reviews of the relationships among role stresses and job performance is that none of them has investigated theoretically meaningful mediators of these relationships. As a consequence, the nature of the processes leading from role stresses to job performance has not yet been systematically explored. Our article addresses this lacuna in past meta-analytic studies (for a recent review of these meta-analytic studies, see Gilboa, Shirom, Fried, & Cooper, 2008). We use structural equation modeling (SEM) to compare the fit of several alternative role stress → job satisfaction and propensity to leave → job performance models to a meta-analytic data set.