This study investigates the influence of two aspects of person-environment congruence on well-being: occupational congruence (OC), the subject of numerous studies, and an entirely new concept, congruence with the physical conditions of the workplace (work setting congruence) (WSC). Using a sample of 164 men and women employed in seven of Roe's eight occupational fields, significant correlations, all in the expected direction, were found between WSC and well-being measures (i.e., satisfaction, burnout, and anxiety), as posited. These were then compared to the correlations between OC and the same well-being measures. The results indicate that WSC is a distinct concept with a unique and significant contribution to well-being. Furthermore, evidence of an additive effect was found so that the presence of both WSC and OC produced higher well-being values than the presence of only one of the congruences.The starting point for this study was Meir's (1989) mapping sentence: congruence → well-being. What this means is that all of the various types of congruence (e.g., occupational, vocational, skill utilization, etc.) are positively related to the positive measures of well-being (satisfaction, self-esteem, etc.) and negatively related to its negative measures (anxiety, burnout, etc.).The hundreds of studies that have tested Holland's (1985Holland's ( , 1997 congruence theory are reviewed in Spokane (1985), Gottfredson (1990), andSpokane, Meir, andCatalano (2000) and were subjected to meta-analysis by Assouline andMeir (1987) andTranberg, Slane, andEkerberg (1993). The results consistently confirm the existence of a connection in the expected direction between the various types of congruence and well-being variables, with the average correlation being .21. Among the types of congruence examined are occupational congruence, leisure congruence, within-occupation congruence,
