Workgroup Emotional Climate: Individual Inputs and Group Cohesion

Abstract

This study examined the relationships between individual differences (i.e., personality traits and trait affect), workgroup emotional climate (WEC), and social cohesion of work teams. Participants were students at a mid-sized university. Specifically, correlations between extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness, positive and negative trait affect, and positive and negative WEC were examined using correlational analyses and hierarchical linear modeling. Group cohesion was assessed as an outcome variable of WEC. Some individual-level variables significantly related to WEC and high positive WEC was positively related to cohesion. Implications and future research are discussed.