The Relationship Between Workplace Telepressure and Teacher Creativity: The Roles of Resilience and Contact Quality With Coworkers

ABSTRACT Owing to the rise of the ‘always‐on’ culture, it is important to address the negative impacts of workplace telepressure. Based on the conservation of resources theory, we develop a comprehensive theoretical framework that explicates how and when workplace telepressure influences creativity in educational settings. Using a time‐lagged survey design, we collected data from 294 secondary school teachers in China. The results support our hypotheses that workplace telepressure is negatively related to teacher creativity. Resilience mediates the relationship between workplace telepressure and teacher creativity. Furthermore, contact quality with coworkers moderates the indirect effect. Specifically, the direct effect of workplace telepressure on resilience, as well as the indirect effect on teacher creativity through resilience, is stronger and significant when contact quality with coworkers is low. The findings enrich the workplace telepressure literature and offer novel insights and avenues for fostering teacher creativity.