Does Happiness Launch More Businesses? Affect, Gender, and Entrepreneurial Intention
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School of Business, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL 62026, USA
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Martin V. Smith School of Business & Economics, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA 93012, USA
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(18), 6908; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186908
Received: 23 July 2020
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Revised: 4 September 2020
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Accepted: 9 September 2020
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Published: 21 September 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Occupational Health: Emotions in the Workplace)
In one of the first studies to examine how positive affect, negative affect, gender, and gender roles interact with entrepreneurial intention, we conducted an online survey of 849 adults from the western, midwestern, and southern regions of the United States. A higher positive affect was associated with greater intention to start a business, however, lower levels of negative affect were not. As in previous studies, women showed less entrepreneurial intention than men, however, the presence of positive affect had a larger positive impact on women’s entrepreneurial intention than men’s. Contrary to expectations, acceptance of traditional gender roles interacted with entrepreneurial intention such that women’s entrepreneurial intention increased as their support of traditional gender roles increased, and for men, entrepreneurial intention decreased slightly as acceptance of traditional gender roles increased.
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Sweida, G.; Sherman, C.L. Does Happiness Launch More Businesses? Affect, Gender, and Entrepreneurial Intention. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 6908. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186908
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Sweida G, Sherman CL. Does Happiness Launch More Businesses? Affect, Gender, and Entrepreneurial Intention. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(18):6908. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186908
Chicago/Turabian StyleSweida, Gloria, and Cynthia L. Sherman. 2020. "Does Happiness Launch More Businesses? Affect, Gender, and Entrepreneurial Intention" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 18: 6908. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186908
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