Job demands and worker health: three-dimensional reexamination of the relationship between person-environment fit and strain.
The most influential study of the person-environment
fit-strain relationship was conducted by Karasek and Theorell (1980). They found that the fit-strain relationship was curvilinear, with a peak at a moderate level of strain. The present study reexamined the relationship between person-environment fit and strain using a three-dimensional approach. The results of the