Effects of trait affect on creativity: Moderating role of group affective climate and reflexivity

This study extends mood-creativity literature by examining the trait affect of employees, identifying group contexts moderating the relationship between affect and creativity, and introducing a multilevel perspective. Multilevel analyses of data on 306 employees from 50 organizational teams reveal that group affective climate and group reflexivity facilitate creativity of employees with positive trait affect. Positive affective climate has significant direct effect as well as its significant interactive effect with positive trait affect on individual creativity. In addition, group reflexivity proves to be a significant predictor of individual creativity as well as a contextual moderator of the individual-level affect-creativity relationship. This study integrates trait affectivity into affect-creativity research that has focused only on momentary moods or state affect. Based on the mood-as-input model, the present study opens the possibility for potential benefits of both positive and negative affect; how...