Work role stressors are generally associated with job strain. However, literature has made a distinction between the types of stress and there have been implications of these differences on individual and organizational outcomes. This study investigated the weighted effects of work role stressors on job strain.  Moreover, it sought the moderating role of employees' perceived value congruence on the relationship between stressors and job strain. Using a sample of 287 pairs of employees and their immediate supervisors who were recruited from four medium-sized organizations, the study found that both role conflict and ambiguity predicted more variance in employees' depressive symptoms than role overload did.  Importantly, value congruence mitigated the impact of work role stressors on depression such that employees with high level of perceived value congruence demonstrated lower level of depressive symptoms than did those reporting lower level of value congruence. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.