This research gives us the better understanding of the influences among workplace stressors, job engagement, proactive behavior, leader-member exchange and job performance. Following the previous study, this study defines workplace stressors into two types which are challenge stressor and hindrance stressor on proactive behavior by testing them with the direct relationship and indirect relationship through the mediating effect of job engagement moderate. This also tests the effect of proactive behavior and job performance. By consider how employees can improve their engagement with the work, we choose leader-member exchange (LMX) to investigate the moderating effect of LMX on the relationship between workplace stressor and job engagement.
This research was conducted in Thailand with 319 respondents. First, the factor analysis was used to make sure that all the items are accurate and reliable. Then the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and finally the multiple hierarchical regression was used for the analysis. According to the result, the majority of the hypotheses were supported. Almost all of the relationship between challenge-hindrance stressor, job engagement, proactive behavior, job performance is all supported. The moderating effect, however, was not supported which will be discussed in the discussion part.

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