The I and we of team identification: a multilevel study of exhaustion and (in)congruence among individuals and teams in team identification
- 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.
Author: | Nina Mareen JunkerORCiDGND, Rolf van DickORCiDGND, Jan Häusser, Thomas Ellwart, Michael J. Zyphur |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-624936 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/10596011211004789 |
ISSN: | 1552-3993 |
Parent Title (English): | Group & organization management |
Publisher: | Sage |
Place of publication: | Thousand Oaks, Calif. [u.a.] |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2021/04/13 |
Date of first Publication: | 2021/04/13 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2021/09/09 |
Tag: | exhaustion; multilevel latent polynomial regression analysis; social identity |
Volume: | 2021 |
Page Number: | 31 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 31 |
Note: | 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. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 489190200 |
Institutes: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften / Psychologie |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |