ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapter of this book. McGrath wrote the I/O handbook on occupational stress, are a social psychologist and his approach can be as a social psychology approach. Schwarz notes that mood research suggests that people in poor moods judge situations and people more accurately in good moods do performance appraisals. Mood, self-appraisal, and social cognition theories all appear to have links to occupational stress and further examination of them is likely to lead to new innovative research in the area. Taxonomy of the subtypes of role ambiguity is based on the source of the ambiguous role messages: impersonal sources, organizational members as sources, and non-organizational members as sources. The proactive person assumption that people work toward goals could be used in occupational stress research and theory development by incorporating some of the goal-setting theory variables: goal difficulty, goal specificity, goal acceptance, and participation in goal-setting.
