| Sumario: | Over the last four decades, occupational stress researchers have given considerable attention to the potential correlates and consequences of workload. In the current study, we use meta-analysis (overallk= 336) to quantitatively review the workload literature. In analyses of hypothesized correlates, we found that social support was negatively associated (ρ= −.20 for supervisor support;ρ= –.11 for co-worker support) and that trait negative affectivity (ρ= .22), role ambiguity (ρ= .28), role conflict (ρ= .44) and work-family conflict (ρ= .44 for work-to-family conflict;ρ= .20 for family-to-work conflict) were each positively associated with workload. Analyses examining hypothesized outcome variables suggest that workload is negatively associated with several indices of psychological and physical well-being (ρs were generally in the –.20s and –.30s), and affective organizational commitment (ρ= –.11), and is positively associated with turnover intention (ρ= .16) and absenteeism (ρ= .07).
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