“…Four models of workplace stress are discussed; the Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) model (Siegrist, 2008), Job Demands-Resources (JDR) model (Bakker & Demerouti, 2007), Job Demand-Control (JDC) model (Karasek, 1979), and the Job Demand-Control-Support (JDCS) model (Johnson & Hall, 1988) . The JDCS has been used extensively in general workforce (Fila, Paik, Griffeth, & Allen, 2014;Hausser, Mojzisch, Niesel, & Schulz-Hardt, 2010), nursing workforce (Peterson, McGillis Hall, O'Brien-Pallas, & Cockerill, 2011), and Australian aged care workforce (Gao, Newcombe, Tilse, Wilson, & Tuckett, 2014;Rodwell, 2009;Rodwell & Martin, 2013) studies, and as such was selected for use in this study. Finally the theoretical links between the Job Demand-Control-Support model, moral distress, and aged care workers are identified.…”