TY  - JOUR
A1  - Junker, Nina Mareen
A1  - Dick, Rolf van
A1  - Häusser, Jan
A1  - Ellwart, Thomas
A1  - Zyphur, Michael J.
T1  - The I and we of team identification: a multilevel study of exhaustion and (in)congruence among individuals and teams in team identification
T2  - Group & organization management
N2  - The social identity approach to stress proposes that the beneficial effects of social identification develop through individual and group processes, but few studies have addressed both levels simultaneously. Using a multilevel person–environment fit framework, we investigate the group-level relationship between team identification (TI) and exhaustion, the individual-level relationship for people within a group, and the cross-level moderation effect to test whether individual-level exhaustion depends on the level of (in)congruence in TI between individuals and their group as a whole. We test our hypotheses in a sample of 525 employees from 82 teams. Multilevel polynomial regression analysis revealed a negative linear relationship between individual-level identification and exhaustion. Surprisingly, the relation between group-level identification and exhaustion was curvilinear, indicating that group-level identification was more beneficial at low and high levels compared with medium levels. As predicted, the cross-level moderation of the individual-level relationship by group-level identification was also significant, showing that as individuals became more incongruent in a positive direction (i.e., they identified more strongly than the average team member), they reported less exhaustion, but only if the group-level identification was average or high. These results emphasize the benefits of analyzing TI in a multilevel framework, with both theoretical and practical implications.
KW  - social identity
KW  - exhaustion
KW  - multilevel latent polynomial regression analysis
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62493
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-624936
SN  - 1552-3993
N1  - The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was partially funded by a grant from the German Research Foundation (HA 6455/4-1 and DI 848/15-1) awarded to the first three authors and by a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (13DPD3-124662/1) awarded to the fourth author.
VL  - 2021
SP  - 1
EP  - 31
PB  - Sage
CY  - Thousand Oaks, Calif. [u.a.]
ER  -