“Some days won’t end ever”: Working faster and longer as a boundary condition for challenge versus hindrance effects of time pressure.

Within the workplace, time constraints that create deadline pressure may jeopardize employees’ goal attainment. In an attempt to overcome this stressful situation, employees may increase their efforts. We examine two strategies that are assumed to be stress reactions (coping) under conditions of high time pressure: working faster and working longer. We propose that these strategies moderate the relationship between time pressure and adverse...