J. de Jonge

• PhD
• Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology

There is increasing interest in sustainable employment throughout employees’ careers, which makes sustainable work environments more and more important. This study investigates key components of sustainable work systems (i.e., job demands and job resources) and their association with employee sustainable well-being and sustainable performance. Spec...

Aim This study examines the moderating role of specific job resources in the association between job demands, vigour, sustainable performance and fatigue in nursing home staff. Design A multi‐location cross‐sectional survey study in line with the STROBE guidelines. Methods Online self‐completion questionnaires were distributed in the Summer of 20...

Psychosocial safety climate (PSC) is defined as the corporate climate in relation to employees’ perceptions of organizational policies, procedures, and practices for the protection of employee psychosocial safety and well-being. The present study was based on the Demand-Induced Strain Compensation (DISC) Model and proposed that the interplay betwee...

The present study studied two prominent job stress models as predictors of employee vigor and employee sustainable performance. First, based on the matching principle of the Demand-Induced Strain Compensation (DISC) Model, we predicted that job resources moderate (i.e. strengthen) the linear relation of job demands with employee vigor and sustainab...

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Drawing on 50 years of research, this article defines workaholism as involving high motivation (e.g., being driven to work due to internal pressures) as well as high effort expenditure (e.g., having persistent thoughts about work when not working and working beyond what can reasonably be expected). Workaholism can be distinguished from concepts suc...

Drawing on 50 years of research, this article defines workaholism as involving high motivation (e.g., being driven to work due to internal pressures) as well as high effort expenditure (e.g., having persistent thoughts about work when not working and working beyond what can reasonably be expected). Workaholism can be distinguished from concepts suc...

In the last couple of decades, there has been an increasing trend of sports psychology research studies drawing on theoretical models from the realm of work and organizational psychology. These models have been either directly applied or adapted to fit the sports context. The purpose of this narrative review is to explore the advantages and potenti...

Long-distance running is a demanding sport and runners use a variety of coping strategies to deal with these demands. In this study, we investigated running-related demands, resources, and recovery and, as an indicator of well-being, vigor. Specifically, following the Demand-Induced Strain Compensation Recovery Model, we tested to what degree the r...

The present study investigated the role of job/home resources in the relation between job/home demands and exhaustion, job satisfaction, work-home interference, and home-work interference during the COVID-19 pandemic. We explored the prevalence of job/home demands and resources during the COVID-19 pandemic, and examined whether working at different...

Runners have a high risk of getting injured compared to practitioners of other sports, and reducing this risk appears challenging. A possible solution may lie in the self-regulatory behavior of runners and their passion for running, which are promising predictors of runners' risk of running-related injuries (RRIs) and chronic fatigue. Therefore, in...

Introduction: Consistently predicting adverse outcomes of long-distance running, such as running-related injuries (RRIs) and chronic fatigue, has proven to be a complicated matter. However, research suggests that a stronger focus on psychological factors of runners might provide further insights. Consequently, in this study, we explored the interpl...

Although the concept of employee sustainable performance has received considerable attention in the practitioner literature, academic research still lacks a clear conceptualization and empirical operationalization of this concept. Defining employee sustainable performance as a regulatory process in which an individual worker enduringly and efficien...

The goal of the present study is to examine the moderating role of resources at work or study in the relation between demands, vigor, and fatigue in academic life. Trying to replicate scarce research on both academic and student stress simultaneously, we tested the so-called triple-match principle in an academic context to study whether or not matc...

Detachment from sport refers to refraining from sport-related activities (physical detachment) as well as disengaging from sport-related thoughts and emotions during time in recovery (cognitive and emotional detachment). Detachment is associated with improved physical and mental recovery from sport demands. However, research conducted among nonathl...

This pilot study investigates the moderating role of passion for running in the relation between mental recovery from running and running-related injuries (RRIs). We predict that the relation between recovery and injuries is dependent on the level of passion. A cross-sectional survey study was conducted among 246 Dutch recreational runners. Multiva...

Recovery from work today seems to be crucial for health care employees’ health, so it is important to uncover ways how to facilitate and improve adequate recovery from work. Focusing on the recovery concept of detachment from work, this study investigated associations between detachment after work and during work breaks and individual health among...

This study examines whether specific (matching) combinations of demands and resources exist in the prediction of both positive and negative outcomes (i.e., vitality and fatigue) in a university context. In addition, we test the Demand-Induced Strain Compensation (DISC) Model’s key principles in this context to study its relevance, validity, and gen...

Passion is often touted as an admirable quality in various domains of sport. Vallerand (2003; 2010) nuanced the generally optimistic view of passion with the Dualistic Model of Passion, which discerns the, more positive, harmonious and, more negative, obsessive passion. Applied to long-distance runners we hypothesise that runners high on sport-spec...

Objectives: To prevent poor health and well-being resulting from the high demands of coaching in elite sport, coaches need to recover during time away from work. This can benefit coaches’ own work experiences as well as their interpersonal behaviour towards athletes. Therefore, the first aim of this study was to investigate within-person associatio...

Vitality at work is an important factor for organizations to build a healthier, more engaged, sustainable, and productive workforce. The organizational and societal relevance of vitality at work is high, particularly with regard to an aging and more diverse workforce. This Special Issue focusses on what might be called sustainable performance at wo...

The triple‐match principle, as outlined by the Demand‐Induced Strain Compensation (DISC) Model, states that resources are most effective when they match particular demands. The present study investigates the role of match in elite sport with regard to the relation between sport‐related demands, sport‐related resources, and vigor (i.e., physical str...

Presented by Luuk van Iperen.

Aims: Adequate physical and mental (i.e., cognitive and emotional) recovery is essential for dancers' health and well-being. However, studies investigating the role of mental demands and recovery in dance are scarce. A potentially effective mental recovery strategy is detachment from dance, which refers to the absence of performance-related though...

Presented by Jan de Jonge.

Presented by Luuk van Iperen.

This study examined whether particular recovery activities after work have a positive or negative effect on employee recovery from work (i.e., cognitive, emotional, and physical detachment) and sleep quality. We used a two-wave panel study of 230 health care employees which enabled looking at both short-term and long-term effects (i.e., two-year ti...

Background Running-related injuries (RRIs) can be considered the primary enemy of runners. Most literature on injury prediction and prevention overlooks the mental aspects of overtraining and under-recovery, despite their potential role in injury prediction and prevention. Consequently, knowledge on the role of mental aspects in RRIs is lacking. O...

Too high demands, combined with a lack of resources, are often detrimental to athletic health and well-being. However, a valid and reliable instrument to investigate different dimensions of demands and resources in sport is currently unavailable. Therefore, the present study examines the psychometric properties of an existing and well-validated sur...

Effective interventions to prevent work stress and to improve health, well-being, and performance of employees are of the utmost importance. This quasi-experimental intervention study presents a specific method for diagnosis of psychosocial risk factors at work and subsequent development and implementation of tailored work stress interventions, the...

Detachment, getting a physical, cognitive, and emotional break from the effortful demands of training and competition, is a recovery experience that can buffer the adverse effects of high sport demands on health and well-being. The matching hypothesis states that recovery strategies are most effective when they match particular sport demands. The m...

Although sports activities are generally considered beneficial to people’s health and well-being, they can cause injuries and increased fatigue. Guided by the Demand-Induced Strain Compensation Recovery Model, this study hypothesized that physical recovery and mental detachment from sport-related activities would prevent injury and enhance mental e...

This chapter deals with the issue of job stress in relation to employee health, well-being and performance. The chapter starts with an outline of job stress as a societal problem, illustrating current trends in society, the nature of work, and job stress. It continues with a discussion of the main perspectives on job stress, including bad and good...

Detachment from work during non-work time is generally related to a decrease in work-related strain. However, it might also hamper employees’ generation of new and useful ideas about work by completely shutting off work-related thoughts and/or feelings outside of work. In this day-level study, we used a within-person design to investigate the role...

This study examined whether a higher level of psychological detachment during non-work time is associated with better employee mental health (Hypothesis 1), and examined whether psychological detachment has a curvilinear relation (inverted U-shaped pattern) with work engagement (Hypothesis 2). A large cross-sectional Internet survey was conducted a...

Background: Research showed that long-term care facilities differ widely in the use of psychotropic drugs and physical restraints. The aim of this study is to investigate whether characteristics of an unhealthy work environment in facilities for people with dementia are associated with more prescription of psychotropic drugs and physical restraints...

It is well-known that recovery from work and job resources can counteract negative effects of high job demands, but less is known about how off-job recovery and job resources are related to each other. In this two-level daily diary study, 67 employees filled out daily surveys over the course of 8 days to examine this issue. Consistent with our expe...

Health care staff in nursing homes are facing increasingly high job demands at work, which can have a detrimental impact on their health and work motivation. The Demand-Induced Strain Compensation (DISC) Model offers a theoretical framework to study how matching job resources and matching occupational rewards can buffer the adverse effects of high...

A closer look at the Demand-Induced Strain Compensation Model: the role of match, functional self-regulation and personal characteristics A closer look at the Demand-Induced Strain Compensation Model: the role of match, functional self-regulation and personal characteristics The Demand-Induced Strain Compensation (DISC) Model is a theoretical model...

AimTo explore the role of nursing staff's person-centredness caring for people with dementia in relation to their work environment and job-related well-being.Background Given the development towards person-centred care and labour force issues, research has recently focused on the effect of person-centredness on nursing staff's well-being. Findings...

The present study investigates the issue of match between job demands and job resources in the prediction of changes in job-related well-being outcomes as outlined by the Demand-Induced Strain Compensation (DISC) model. Job demands, resources, and well-being outcomes are considered to be multidimensional constructs comprising physical, cognitive, a...

Psychological detachment from work, an off-job experience of "switching off" mentally, seems to be crucial for promoting employee's well-being. Previous studies on predictors of psychological detachment mainly focused on job-related factors, and only a few studies focused on family-related and personal factors. This study focuses not only on job-re...

The demand-induced strain compensation model is a theoretical job stress model that has been tested in different kinds of empirical study in several countries. To measure key concepts in the model (job demands and job resources), the demand-induced strain compensation questionnaire (DISQ) was developed and has been used in many empirical studies. H...

In dit hoofdstuk staan psychische aandoeningen en klachten centraal die ontstaan door of tijdens het werk, of die worden verergerd door het werk. Deze aandoeningen en klachten worden in dit hoofdstuk op een specifieke wijze belicht: vanuit de epidemiologie. Epidemiologie kan worden omschreven als de (medische) statistiek van de grote aantallen. Zij...

Assessment van risico's in de arbeid is een verplichting die iedere organisatie wettelijk heeft. In artikel 5 van de Arbowet staat immers dat werkgevers bij het voeren van arbobeleid, in een risico-inventarisatie en -evaluatie (RIE) schriftelijk de gevaren, risico's en risicobeperkende maatregelen dienen vast te leggen (zie ook hfst. 24). Deze info...

It is well-known that health care workers in today's general hospitals have to deal with high levels of job demands, which could have negative effects on their health, well-being, and job performance. A way to reduce job-related stress reactions and to optimize positive work-related outcomes is to raise the level of specific job resources and oppor...

Though research on the demand-induced strain compensation (DISC) model has suggested that the type of job resources people employ to deal with job demands may have serious implications for job stress theory and practice, not much is known about the choices people make regarding the investment of job resources. The aim of this study is to fill this...

The aim of this study is to investigate the moderating effect of matching job resources as well as matching off-job recovery (i.e., detachment from work) on the relation between corresponding job demands and psychological outcomes. Using the Demand-Induced Strain Compensation (DISC) Model as a theoretical framework, we conducted a cross-sectional s...

Empirical research on Karasek's job demand–control (JD-C) model has often failed to demonstrate the predicted interaction effect of high job demands and low job control on measures of strain. It has been suggested that the conceptualization of the control dimension as well as the neglect of workers' individual characteristics in the JD-C model may...

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 exam...

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 promoti...

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 promoti...

Not right now…! On recovery and recovery strategies in work situations Not right now…! On recovery and recovery strategies in work situations Jan de Jonge, Fred R.H. Zijlstra en Judith K. Sluiter, Gedrag & Organisatie, volume 23, December 2010, nr. 4, pp. 259-274. The guest editors introduce the subject of this special issue on the effects of recov...

Take a break…! Or better not…? Take a break…! Or better not…? A daily-survey study on detachment and creativity Ellen Spoor, Jan de Jonge & Jan P.H. Hamers, Gedrag & Organisatie, volume 23, December 2010, nr. 4, pp. 296-315. This study investigated the influence of job demands, job resources, and off-job detachment on creativity, by testing the pri...

This study investigated the influence of job demands, job resources, and off-job detachment on creativity, by testing the principles of the Demand-Induced-Strain Compensation (DISC) model with an 8-days daily survey study. Detachment is defined as the extent to which one is able to detach oneself completely from one's work (recovery experience). Re...

The guest editors introduce the subject of this special issue on the effects of recovery and recovery strategies in work situations. The terms effort, fatigue and recovery are explained, and the context of recovery in the workplace is outlined. In addition, various forms of recovery are discussed. Theoretical and empirical research in the field of...

This paper is a report of a study conducted to determine the combined effect of acute and chronic job demands on acute job strains experienced during medical emergencies, and its consequences for individual teamwork behaviour. Medical emergency personnel have to cope with high job demands, which may cause considerable work stress (i.e. job strains)...

Because of high demands at work, nurses are at high risk for occupational burnout and physical complaints. The presence of job resources (such as job autonomy or social support) and recovery opportunities could counteract the adverse effect of high job demands. However, it is still unclear how job resources and recovery opportunities can be transla...

We explore the notion of "match". In the context of job design, this is congruence or correspondence between two or more job characteristics (e.g., cognitive demands and cognitive control). This congruence is thought to benefit health, well-being and performance. The origins of the match concept lie in buffering models of work stress, where resourc...

This study examines human service employees' beliefs about the availability, relevance, and use of specific types of job resources (i.e. cognitive, emotional, and physical) in similar types of demanding situations at work. To gain a better understanding of these intra-psychic processes assumed to underlie the relation between job demands, job resou...

Supportive studies of the demand-control (DC) model were more likely to measure specific demands combined with a corresponding aspect of control. A longitudinal test of Karasek's (Adm Sci Q. 24:285-308, 1) job strain hypothesis including specific measures of job demands and job control, and both self-report and objectively recorded well-being. Job...

Medical errors in health care still occur frequently. Unfortunately, errors cannot be completely prevented and 100% safety can never be achieved. Therefore, in addition to error reduction strategies, health care organisations could also implement strategies that promote timely error detection and correction. Reporting and analysis of so-called near...

Hospitals can apply prospective and retrospective methods to reduce the large number of medical errors. Retrospective methods are used to identify errors after they occur and to facilitate learning. Prospective methods aim to determine, assess and minimise risks before incidents happen. This paper questions whether the order of implementation of th...

This paper summarizes the state of affairs of European research on ageing and work. After a close inspection of the age construct, an overview is presented of research in four areas: the relationship between age and HR-policies, early retirement, age and performance/employability, age and health/well-being. The overview results in a research agenda...

'Na gedane arbeid is het goed rusten': het is logisch dat we na een periode van hard werken tijd en rust nodig hebben om te herstellen. Bij arbeid gaat het vaak om dagelijks terugkerende inspanningen, die op zich niet schadelijk hoeven te zijn. Doordat ze echter regelmatig terugkeren, kan dit na verloop van tijd stressreacties oproepen. Of dit het...

To explore how hospital management could gain a better picture of risks to support them in setting priorities for patient safety. and This study deals with the combined application of prospective and retrospective methods for risk analysis on two units of a Dutch general hospital. In the prospective analyses, employees identified and assessed possi...

Our objective was to examine cross-cultural comparability of standard scales of the Effort-Reward Imbalance occupational stress scales by item response theory (IRT) analyses. Data were from 20,256 Japanese employees, 1464 Dutch nurses and nurses' aides, 2128 representative employees from post-communist countries, 963 Swedish representative employee...

Background: Most studies of counterproductive work behavior (CWB) are criticized for overreliance on single-source self-reports. This study attempts to triangulate on behaviors and perceptions of the work environment by linking job incumbent self-report with coworker report of the job incumbent's behaviors. Theoretical framework is the Demand-Indu...

The present study investigates the issue of match between job demands and job resources in the prediction of employees' cognitive well-being. Job demands and job resources, as well as job-related strains (and concepts concerned with positive well-being), are not one-dimensional concepts. At a very basic level they comprise physical, cognitive and/o...

Siegrist's [1996. Adverse health effects of high-effort/low-reward conditions. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 1, 27-41.] Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) Model assumes that ERI at one point in time influences health at a later point in time. Empirical cross-sectional and longitudinal findings have supported the influence of ERI on adverse...

This paper is a report of a study to investigate the functionality of different kinds of job resources for managing job stress in nursing. There is increasing recognition that healthcare staff, and especially nurses, are at high risk for burnout and physical complaints. Several researchers have proposed that job resources moderate the relationship...

Consider a researcher who uses three measures of stressors, three measures of strains, and three measures of support. If a subset of the 27 interactions were significant, the question becomes whether the significant terms were due to Type I error? In several cases, researchers seemed to provide post hoc explanations as to why the significant terms...

There have been few empirical studies to explain the individual differences in and the underlying mechanism behind the Job Demand-Control (DC) Model. This study examined the lagged effects of active coping on stress responses (i.e., psychological distress and physical complaints) in the context of the DC Model using three-wave panel survey data wit...

Key measures of Siegrist's (1996) Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) Model (i.e., efforts, rewards, and overcommitment) were psychometrically tested. To study change in organizational interventions, knowledge about the type of change underlying the instruments used is needed. Next to assessing baseline factorial validity and reliability, the factorial s...

Research on emotional labour in health care work has not yet revealed under what conditions emotional job demands have an impact on employee health and well-being. There is a need for more theory to unveil the black box of emotional labour processes. To test the moderating role of matching (i.e. emotional) and non-matching (i.e. cognitive) job reso...

This paper reports a study of the relationship between the use of physical restraints with psycho-geriatric nursing home residents and the characteristics of organisations and residents. It is hypothesised that impairment in residents and organisational characteristics, such as a high workload of nursing staff and a low full-time equivalent (FTE) r...

Principles of covariance structure analysis Principles of covariance structure analysis H.J.A. Hoijtink & J. de Jonge, Gedrag & Organisatie, volume 20, maart 2007, nr. 1, pp. 57-81 This paper is an introduction to covariance structure analysis (CSA). The ins and outs of this technique are explained by means of measurement models and structural mode...

Reports an error in "Stressors, Resources, and Strain at Work: A Longitudinal Test of the Triple-Match Principle" by Jan de Jonge and Christian Dormann (Journal of Applied Psychology, 2006[Nov], Vol 91[6], 1359-1374). The issue number at the upper left corner of the title page (p. 1359) is wrongly stated as 5 rather than 6. Furthermore, in Table 1...

Werknemers in geïndustrialiseerde landen kregen de afgelopen jaren in toenemende mate te makenmet veranderingen in en rondomde arbeid. Zo is er sprake van een intensivering van de arbeid, zich uitend in een hoge werkdruk. En van een verschuiving van fysieke belasting naar mentale en emotionele belasting, onder andere ten gevolge van een toename van...

De arbeid- en gezondheidspsychologie (A&G-psychologie) is een van de jongste en meest dynamische loten aan de stam van de psychologie. Het is een samensmelting van de klinische psychologie, de gezondheidspsychologie en de A&G-psychologie, die zich van origine bezighoudt met het disfunctioneren van mensen in arbeidsorganisaties. Daarnaast staan tege...