The present cross-lagged panel study aimed to investigate the energizing power of job resources and related gain spirals.
A detailed understanding of job resources, especially of job control, may help preserve eldercare workers' work-related well-being.
The different form the moderating effect takes when emotional intelligence is high or low expands our knowledge about the buffering effects of job resources in Chinese society.
Grounded in the JD-R model, job crafters change either the level of job demands, the level of job resources, or both (Tims et al. 2012, 2013).
However, findings in previous studies conducted in the West on the moderating effect of job resources on job demands are inconsistent (Bakker et al. 2004; Bakker and Demerouti 2007).
Examples of job resources are workplace social support and job autonomy.
Increase of job resources thus seemed to follow chronologically the increase of personal resources.
Moderated hierarchical regression analyses were employed to examine the main effect of verbal aggression and of job resources on job burnout, as well as the moderating (buffering) role of job resources on the relationship between verbal aggression and burnout.
