Is Team Emotional Composition Essential for Virtual Team Members’ Well-Being? The Role of a Team Emotional Management Intervention

Nuria Gamero, Baltasar González-Anta, Virginia Orengo, Ana Zornoza and Vicente Peñarroja
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Nuria Gamero: Social Psychology Department, University of Seville, 41004 Sevilla, Spain
Baltasar González-Anta: Research Institute IDOCAL, University of Valencia, 46010 València, Spain
Virginia Orengo: Research Institute IDOCAL, University of Valencia, 46010 València, Spain
Ana Zornoza: Research Institute IDOCAL, University of Valencia, 46010 València, Spain
Vicente Peñarroja: Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 08018 Barcelona, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 9, 1-19

Abstract: The aim of this study was twofold. First, we examined the relationship between virtual teams’ emotional intelligence composition and three indicators of their members’ well-being, members’ satisfaction with the team, and positive and negative affective states. Second, we analyzed the moderator role of an online team emotional management intervention in the effects of the team emotional intelligence composition. One hundred and two virtual teams participated in an experimental study with repeated measures. Teams were randomly assigned to either an intervention designed to help them detect and manage emotions during virtual teamwork or a control condition (with no intervention). We followed a hierarchical data strategy and examined a number of nested models using Hierarchical Linear Modeling. Our findings showed that virtual teams’ emotional intelligence composition is a key driver of the team members’ well-being, and that a team emotional management intervention moderated the impact of the team composition of emotional intelligence, buffering its influence.

Keywords: team composition; emotional intelligence; team emotional management; training; members’ well-being; virtual teams (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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