This study aims to explain the mixed findings on the relationship between job anxiety and creativity by examining the specific impacts of the components of job anxiety on creativity.
Using a cross-sectional research design, questionnaires are administered to 436 respondents with an average work experience of 14 years. The empirical data are evaluated using regression analyses.
Three types of relationships exist between the components of job anxiety and creativity, categorised as linear, inverse linear and nonlinear. The presence of these three relationship categories indicates that the arousal level at which creativity is optimised varies among the components of job anxiety. However, this requires further investigation.
The relationship between these two variables has seldom been studied in the literature on organisational behaviour.
