SOCIODRAMA AND ROLE STRESS
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SOCIODRAMA, ROLE STRESSAbstract
Role stress has been the subject of several studies in which the relationship between stress and the expectations on the role has been examined. Aronson and Carlsmith (1962) in their study predicted that "an individual who has a clear conception of his ability at a given task will experience dissonance if his behavior differs sharply from this expectancy." Both role conflict and ambiguity regarding role expectations has been linked to anxiety and tension (Gross, Mason, and McEachern, 1958; House and Rizzo, 1972; Kahn, Wolfe, Quinn, Snoek, and Rosenthal, 1964). Role Stress may therefore be seen as related to: the degree to which role behavior deviates from role expectations; the degree to which role expectations are ambiguous; conflicted role expectations
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