An isomorphic theory of stress: the dynamics of person–environment fit

Quick, James Campbell; Nelson, Debra L.; Orman, Dusty K.

doi:10.1002/smi.893

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“…Our results support the personenvironment fit theory proposed by Quick, Nelson, Quick and Orman (2001), provide hints at how to benefit from acknowledging an interaction effect between the individual and his task-environment, and suggest a more individualized approach to human resources management in Armed Forces.…”

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Sensation Seeking and Perceived Need for Structure Moderate Soldiers’ Well-Being Before and After Operational Deployment

Parmak

Mylle

Euwema

2014

Military Behavioral Health

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 83%

Sensation Seeking and Perceived Need for Structure Moderate Soldiers’ Well-Being Before and After Operational Deployment

Parmak

Mylle

Euwema

2014

Military Behavioral Health

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“…The original concept of ‘stress’ was used to describe a set of physiological and psychological responses to adverse external conditions or influences (Selye, , ; Maslach, ; Mayer, ; Quick et al, ). Later, researchers studied the behavioural responses to such external influences as stress, which was conceptualised as a natural consequence of living (Vasse et al, ; Richmond & Kehoe, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Technostress creators and job outcomes: theorising the moderating influence of personality traits

Srivastava

Chandra²,

Shirish

2015

Information Systems Journal

310

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Although prior research has examined the influence of technostress creators on job outcomes, insights into the influence of personality traits on the perceptions of technostress creators and their consequent impacts on job outcomes are rather limited. Such insights would enable a deeper understanding about the effects of individual differences on salient job-related outcomes. In this research, by leveraging the distinctions in personality traits offered by the big five personality traits in the five-factor model and grounding the research in the transactional model of stress and coping, we theorise the moderating influence of personality traits on the relationships between technostress creators and job outcomes, namely job burnout and job engagement. Specifically, the study theorises the mechanisms through which each of the specific personality traits openness-to-experience, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and extraversion interacts with technostress creators to differently influence job burnout and job engagement. We test the proposed model in a field study based on a survey of senior organisational managers who regularly use information and communication technologies for executing professional tasks. Although technostress creators are generally associated with negative job outcomes, our results also show that for individuals with certain personality traits, technostress creators may result in positive job outcomes. The study thus contributes to the technostress literature, specifically by incorporating the salient role of individual differences. The study also provides insights for managers who should pay special attention to allocating specific job roles to employees with particular personality traits in order to optimise jobrelated outcomes.

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“…One possible explanation for this finding comes from P-E Fit Theory. Some have suggested that the match between individual preferences and setting characteristics may have a larger impact on individual well-being when the demands of the setting are rigid than when they are flexible (Moos, 1981; Quick, Nelson, Quick, & Orman, 2001). Thus, we might expect mother's preferences for education to play a smaller role in child well-being when setting demands are more flexible.…”

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Maternal Education Preferences Moderate the Effects of Mandatory Employment and Education Programs on Child Positive and Problem Behaviors

Gassman‐Pines

Godfrey

Yoshikawa³

2012

Child Development

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Grounded in Person-Environment Fit Theory, this study examined whether low-income mothers' preferences for education moderated the effects of employment- and education-focused welfare programs on children's positive and problem behaviors. The sample included 1,365 families with children between ages 3 and 5 at study entry. Results 5 years after random assignment, when children were ages 8 to 10, indicated that mothers' education preferences did moderate program impacts on teacher-reported child behavior problems and positive behavior. Children whose mothers were assigned to the education program were rated by teachers to have less externalizing behavior and more positive behavior than children whose mothers were assigned to the employment program, but only when mothers had strong preferences for education.

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An isomorphic theory of stress: the dynamics of person–environment fit

Cited by 24 publications

References 49 publications

Sensation Seeking and Perceived Need for Structure Moderate Soldiers’ Well-Being Before and After Operational Deployment

Sensation Seeking and Perceived Need for Structure Moderate Soldiers’ Well-Being Before and After Operational Deployment

Technostress creators and job outcomes: theorising the moderating influence of personality traits

Maternal Education Preferences Moderate the Effects of Mandatory Employment and Education Programs on Child Positive and Problem Behaviors

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