Striving to Self‐Verify in Teamwork: Linking Team Self‐Verification Striving to Team Interaction Process and Team Creativity
基于自我验证理论和团队认知文献，将自我验证努力提升到团队层面，通过两项多源调查发现团队自我验证努力通过促进团队交叉理解和知识分享来提升团队创造力，且任务相互依赖性强化了这一过程。
ABSTRACT Although it is commonly recognized that individuals who strive to exhibit their true selves tend to harvest desirable workplace outcomes, the effects of such striving on team outcomes have received limited attention. Drawing on self‐verification theory and team cognition literature, this study extends self‐verification striving to the team level and investigates its role in fostering team creativity. We propose that team self‐verification striving sequentially promotes team cross‐understanding and team knowledge sharing, which in turn enhance team creativity. Further, we hypothesize that task interdependence strengthens the impact of team self‐verification striving on team cross‐understanding and its indirect effect on team creativity. Support for the research model was obtained from two time‐lagged, multisource survey studies (Study 1: N = 75 teams; Study 2: N = 93 teams). Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.