The present study proposes to examine the relationship between the demands of individuals' work environment and their levels of subjective well-being, as well as the role of self-efficacy as a mediator of this proposed relationship. Drawing from the demands-control model and its extensions (Karasek, 1979; Johnson & Hall, 1988; Bakker & Demerouti, 2007), as well as the self-efficacy component of social-cognitive theory (Bandura, 1997), I suggest a model that examines the circumstances under which individuals manage to cope, with a greater or lesser degree of success, with the demands of their work, as well as how the success of these coping processes relate to individuals' level of subjective well-being, in combination with the availability of workplace resources in their job and changes in their daily self-efficacy beliefs. Finally, I describe a longitudinal field study designed to test this model in a sample of clerical and administrative employees, and discuss the implications of this model for theory and practice.
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