Unveiling the Interrelatedness of Emotion Sharing and Identification with the Organization.

Our main objective was to conceptualize emotion sharing in the organization, develop and test a measure of it, and explore its nomological network. We conducted a panel study over four waves among nurses working in a public hospital and examined the relationship between emotion sharing and employees' identification with the organization. Further, we investigated organizational antecedents (i.e., perceived emotional support) and interpersonal consequences of emotion sharing (OCB-Is, interpersonal targeted citizenship behaviors, and CWB-Is, interpersonal targeted counterproductive behaviors). Doing so, we aimed to provide evidence of the role of employees' emotion-based social interactions for organization identification processes and in-group favoritism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]