IMPACTS OF ROLE PERCEPTIONS ON ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT, JOB INVOLVEMENT, AND PSYCHOSOMATIC ILLNESS AMONG THREE VOCATIONAL GROUPINGS

This study involved an attempt to assess the comparative influences of perceived role conflict and role ambiguity on psychological investments in work roles (organizational commitment and job involvement) and on work-related psychosomatic illness. In addition, these influences were assessed within a cross-vocational framework in order to determine how obtained relationships may have differed across work roles based on three widely differing vocational groupings. Results indicate that the comparative influences of these two role perceptions differ with respect to the outcomes in question and with respect to differences in the complexity of work roles. © 1979.