title: Job resources and matching active coping styles as moderators of the longitudinal relation between job demands and job strain.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Only in a few longitudinal studies it has been examined whether job resources should be matched to job demands to show stress-buffering effects of job resources (matching hypothesis), while there are no empirical studies in which the moderating effect of matching personal characteristics on the stress-buffering effect of job resources has been examined.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  In this study, both the matching hypothesis and the moderating effect of matching active coping styles were examined with respect to the longitudinal relation between job demands, job resources, and job strain.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study group consisted of 317 beginning teachers from Belgium. The two-wave survey data with a 1-year time lag were analyzed by means of structural equation modeling and multiple group analyses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Data did not support the matching hypothesis. In addition, no support was found for the moderating effect of specific active coping styles, irrespective of the level of match.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To show stress-buffering effects of job resources, it seems to make no difference whether or not specific types of job demands and job resources are matched, and whether or not individual differences in specific active coping styles are taken into account.
authors.affiliation: Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, Human Performance Management Group, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands. M.v.d.Tooren@tue.nl
authors.forename: Marieke
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: van den Tooren
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: de Jonge
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vlerick
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Daniels
authors.forename: Bart
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Van de Ven
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001530:Belgium; D003071:Cognition; D004644:Emotions; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014937:Work / Q000523:psychology*; D016526:Workload; D055815:Young Adult