role overload

a situation resulting from the assumption of a role or of multiple roles in which one is asked to do more than one is capable of doing in a specific period of time (quantitative overload) or in which one is taxed beyond one’s knowledge, skills, and abilities (qualitative overload).

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Psychology term of the day

October 9th 2024

basal skin resistance

see skin resistance.