The Person-Environment Fit Approach to Stress: Recurring Problems and Some Suggested Solutions

Jeffrey R. Edwards and Cary L. Cooper

Chapter 5 in From Stress to Wellbeing Volume 1, 2013, pp 91-108 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In recent years, the person-environment (P-E) fit approach to stress has become widely accepted among organizational stress researchers (Eulberg, Weekley and Bhagat, 1988). The P-E fit approach characterizes stress as a lack of correspondence between characteristics of the person (e.g. abilities, values) and the environment (e.g. demands, supplies). This lack of correspondence is hypothesized to generate deleterious psychological, physiological, and behavioral outcomes, which eventually result in increased morbidity and mortality. This basic framework forms the core of many current theories of organizational stress, such as those presented by French and his colleagues (French, Rogers and Cobb, 1974; French, Caplan and Harrison, 1982), McGrath (1976), Karasek (1979), Schuler (1980), and others.

Keywords: Difference Score; Environmental Demand; Interactive Form; Transactional Model; Shaped Relationship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137310651_5

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