The impact of anger on creative process engagement: The role of social contexts

da Costa, C.G.; Zhou, Q.; Ferreira, A.I.

doi:10.1002/job.2249

The impact of anger on creative process engagement: The role of social contexts

da Costa, C.G.; Zhou, Q.; Ferreira, A.I.

Authors

C.G. da Costa

Q. Zhou

A.I. Ferreira

Abstract

Drawing on the cognitive persistence perspective of creativity and conservation of resources theory, we investigated how 2 social contexts (perceived relationship conflict and coworker support for creativity) influence the relationship between anger and creative process engagement (CPE) in organizations. We tested our hypotheses using 422 daily surveys from 98 participants, collected over 5 consecutive workdays. The results show that anger perceived relationship conflict and coworker support for creativity interact to influence CPE. Specifically, when relationship conflict is high, the anger–CPE relationship is positive for employees who receive high coworker support for creativity, but negative for those who receive low coworker support for creativity. In contrast, when relationship conflict is low, the anger–CPE relationship is positive but does not differ at high versus low coworker support for creativity.

Citation

da Costa, C., Zhou, Q., & Ferreira, A. (2018). The impact of anger on creative process engagement: The role of social contexts. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39(4), 495-506. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2249

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Oct 22, 2017
Online Publication Date	Nov 28, 2017
Publication Date	May 1, 2018
Deposit Date	Oct 27, 2017
Publicly Available Date	Nov 28, 2019
Journal	Journal of Organizational Behavior
Print ISSN	0894-3796
Electronic ISSN	1099-1379
Publisher	Wiley
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	39
Issue	4
Pages	495-506
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2249
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1345612

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This is the accepted version of the following article: da Costa, C. G., Zhou, Q. & Ferreira, A. I. (2017). The impact of anger on creative process engagement: The role of social contexts. Journal of Organizational Behavior, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2249. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.