The Job Demands-Resources Model of Burnout

Proposes that burnout results from an imbalance between job demands and available resources — when demands consistently exceed resources, engagement deteriorates and exhaustion follows.

JD-R theory treats engagement as a function of demand-resource balance, not attitude or motivation. This validates MN's core claim: engagement has a real energetic cost that varies by person-situation configuration, not just by effort or willingness.

The nine natures function as resource profiles. A person with natural Creative engagement has resources for creative demands but not administrative ones. The cost of sustained engagement depends on whether demand matches nature — exactly the demand-resource logic JD-R formalizes.

JD-R operates at the organizational/job level, not at the individual engagement-mode level. MN extends this logic to personal energy patterns that JD-R does not differentiate.