Researchers have examined the effects of individual job‐related anxiety on employee attitudes and behaviors but have yet to examine whether team job‐related anxiety would have similar or different effects. Building on prior research on negative group affective tone and creativity, we propose that team job‐related anxiety has an inverted U‐shaped curvilinear relationship with both team and individual creativity. Furthermore, we posit that team cooperativeness moderates those curvilinear relationships. Using a two‐wave research design and matched employee‐supervisor data from 290 employees nested in 65 teams, we found support for the proposed inverted U‐shaped relationships. Moreover, the intermediate level of team job‐related anxiety was associated with higher individual creativity in teams with higher cooperativeness. We conclude the study with a discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of our findings.

中文翻译：

---

与团队工作相关的焦虑和创造力：调查团队级别和跨级别的缓和曲线关系

研究人员已经研究了与工作相关的焦虑对员工态度和行为的影响，但尚未研究与团队工作相关的焦虑是否会产生相似或不同的影响。在先前对负面团体情感基调和创造力的研究的基础上，我们建议与团队工作相关的焦虑与团队和个人创造力呈倒U型曲线关系。此外，我们认为团队合作可以缓和那些曲线关系。使用两波研究设计和来自65个团队的290名员工的匹配的员工主管数据，我们发现了对建议的倒U型关系的支持。此外，与团队工作相关的焦虑的中级水平与具有较高合作性的团队中较高的个人创造力有关。