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The accumulation of person‐environment congruences and well‐being
Author(s) -
Meir Elchanan I.,
Melamed Samuel
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.4030070405
Subject(s) - congruence (geometry) , psychology , congruence relation , social psychology , vocational education , anxiety , job satisfaction , mathematics , pure mathematics , psychiatry , pedagogy
The impact of the additivity of three aspects of person‐environment congruence — vocational, avocational and skill utilization — to well‐being was assessed by four measures: occupational satisfaction, work satisfaction, somatic complaints and anxiety. Subjects were 74 female teachers. Findings showed: (a) the three congruence aspects were not interrelated; (b) all congruence aspects were correlated with all well‐being measures in the expected direction; and (c) combinations of the three congruence aspects had an additive effect: the higher the number of congruence aspects the higher the well‐being. The implications of congruence additivity to stress research and to vocational counselling was discussed.