Does Dispositional Positive and Negative Affect Predict Late-Career Entrepreneurial Intention? A Theory of Planned Behavior Perspective

Q4 Psychology

Roczniki Psychologiczne Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI:10.18290/rpsych2022.19

Melanie Lam, Ewelina Purc

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Abstract

Late-career entrepreneurship can be a good answer to the problems of an aging population—age discrimination experienced by mature workers or inadequate pensions. For this reason, it is gaining increasing interest among researchers and policymakers. However, to date, very little is known about the factors that favor or hinder intentions to become entrepreneur at the late-career stage, especially those taking a psychological perspective. The current study aims to fill this gap by testing whether dispositional affect is related to entrepreneurial intention at the late-career stage. To explain the mechanism of this relationship, we use the theory of planned behavior. We conducted a study that included 292 non-self-employed people aged 45–81. The results showed that neither positive affect nor negative affect are directly related to entrepreneurial intention, but these relationships are rather indirect and go through components of the theory of planned behavior. This provides insights into explanation of late-career entrepreneurial intention and can be used by researchers, policymakers and practitioners, for example in programs supporting business start-ups by people approaching retirement age.

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性格正向和负向影响对职业后期创业意向的预测?计划行为理论视角

职业生涯后期的创业可以很好地解决人口老龄化问题——成熟工人经历的年龄歧视或养老金不足。因此，研究人员和政策制定者对它越来越感兴趣。然而，到目前为止，人们对有利于或阻碍在职业生涯后期成为企业家的因素知之甚少，尤其是那些从心理学角度来看的因素。目前的研究旨在通过测试性格影响是否与职业生涯后期的创业意图有关来填补这一空白。为了解释这种关系的机制，我们使用了计划行为理论。我们进行了一项研究，包括292名年龄在45-81岁之间的非自营职业者。研究结果表明，无论是积极影响还是消极影响都与创业意向没有直接关系，但这些关系都是间接的，并且贯穿了计划行为理论的各个组成部分。这为解释职业生涯后期的创业意图提供了见解，研究人员、政策制定者和从业者可以使用它，例如在支持接近退休年龄的人创业的项目中。

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期刊介绍： Roczniki Psychologiczne / Annals of Psychology, the continuation of Annals of Philosophy: Psychology, is an academic journal edited by The Scientific Society of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin [Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL]. It aims to present up-to-date and original empirical results and influential theoretical considerations in various areas of psychology as well as to promote new and creative ideas in research and psychological methods. The Journal accepts contributions of three kinds: 1) original peer reviewed articles on both empirical and conceptual topics, 2) short communications, and 3) polemics, which consist of a focus article followed by peer commentaries and a response by the author of the focus article.