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The commerce and crossover of resources: resource conservation in the service of resilience

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Chen, Shoshi, Westman, Mina, Hobfoll, Stevan E.·2015·Stress and Health

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Conservation of resources (COR) theory was originally introduced as a framework for understanding and predicting the consequences of major and traumatic stress, but following the work of Hobfoll and Shirom (1993), COR theory has been adopted to understanding and predicting work-related stress and both the stress and resilience that occur within work settings and work culture. COR theory underscores the critical role of resource possession, lack, loss and gain and depicts personal, social and material resources co-travelling in resource caravans, rather than piecemeal. We briefly review the principles of COR theory and integrate it in the crossover model, which provides a key mechanism for multi-person exchange of emotions, experiences and resources. Understanding the impact of resource reservoirs, resource passageways and crossover provides a framework for research and intervention promoting resilience to employees as well as to organizations. It emphasizes that the creation and maintenance of resource caravan passageways promote resource gain climates through resource crossover processes.

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  • Resource conservation theory states that in stressful or threatening situations, strategies that introduce resources are used to alleviate stress and reduce health problems including social anxiety.

    “resource conservation theory (Hobfoll, 1989; Park et al., 2014), which states that when individuals are in stressful or threatening situations (e.g., relative deprivation), strategies that introduce resources (e.g., trait mindfulness, a positive psychological resource) are often used to alleviate stress and threats to reduce individual health problems, including social anxiety (Chen et al., 2015).”

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Authors
Chen, S., Westman, M., & Hobfoll, S. E.
Affiliations
  • Tel Aviv University (IL)
  • Rush University Medical Center (US)
Corresponding author
Hobfoll, Stevan E.
Venue
Stress and Health
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2015-04
Volume
31
Issue
2
Pages
95-105
ISSN
  • 1532-2998 (ISSN-L)
  • 1532-3005
OpenAlex
W1944858272
Cited by
404
References
88
Citations by year
2026: 63 · 2025: 57 · 2024: 53 · 2023: 53 · 2022: 58 · 2021: 36 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 2
FWCI
1.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Stress and Health (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institutes of Health (NIH-NHLBI 1P50HL105189)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Resilience and Mental Health
Keywords
conservation of resources theory, resilience, occupational stress, employee resilience, organizational resilience
MeSH terms
Humans, Models, Theoretical, Stress, Psychological, Work, Workplace, Resilience, Psychological

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