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Original Article

Job Resources and Regulatory Focus as Moderators of Short-Term Stressor-Strain Relations

A Daily Diary Study

Published Online:July 07, 2011https://doi.org/10.1027/1866-5888/a000042

Abstract

By means of an eight-day daily diary study among 64 nursing home nurses, it was investigated whether within-person stress-buffering effects of job resources on the short-term relation between job demands and job strain were more likely to occur if (1) there was a match between job demands and job resources and (2) workers were predominantly promotion focused rather than predominantly prevention focused. Multilevel regression analyses revealed that there was neither support for the Demand-Induced Strain Compensation Model’s matching hypothesis (Hypothesis 1) nor for the moderating effect of regulatory focus (Hypothesis 2) when studying within-person processes in the context of day-to-day working life.

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