When and why creative performance influences job self‐efficacy: Pride as a mediator and workaholism as a moderator

Abstract We respond to calls to examine the implications of creative performance by exploring the mediating role of pride in the relationship between self‐rated creative performance and job self‐efficacy and the moderating role of workaholism in these relationships. We collected data from a sample of 405 employees in China with a three‐wave time‐lagged design in Study 1 and a sample of 352 employees in the United States with a three‐wave panel design in Study 2. Study 1 and Study 2 provided convergent evidence that self‐rated creative performance at Time 1 positively is related to pride at Time 2, which, in turn, positively related to job self‐efficacy at Time 3. Extending Study 1, Study 2 indicated that the indirect effect of self‐rated creative performance on job self‐efficacy via pride was only significant for employees with low workaholism. Our study contributes to the literature by taking the first attempt to explore how, why, and when self‐rated creative performance is related to job self‐efficacy and by highlighting the critical roles of pride and workaholism. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.