[3] COR states that loss of these types of resources will drive individuals into certain levels of stress.
[5][1] Other researchers such as Elliot and Eisdorfer (1982) defined stress as specifically being the stimulus and not the response, which had been accepted by some of the scientific community.
[6] However, this theory is largely based on the homeostatic model of stress developed by Joseph McGrath (1970).
[7] It is in this theory that stress is defined as an imbalance between the environmental demand and the response capability of an organism.
[17] It used COR as the basis for this research and found that the primacy of resource loss principle is supported.
It found that, over 58 sources, individuals tend to be sensitive to increased demands rather than resources received.
[17] Job control and COR have been studied through a meta-analyses conducted by Park, Baiden, Jacob, & Wagner (2009).