Latent profiles of personality, temperament, and eudaimonic well-being: Comparing life satisfaction and health outcomes among entrepreneurs and employees

J. Jeffrey Gish, Maria Guedes, Bárbara G. Silva and Pankaj C. Patel

Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2022, vol. 17, issue C

Abstract: Considerable research finds that entrepreneurs enjoy higher subjective well-being than wage-earning employees. At the same time, entrepreneurship is uniquely stressful for founders, who generally have high levels of personal commitment to the business and often higher workloads than wage employees. This highlights a tension in entrepreneurship research where it is unclear how self-employment influences well-being. This research seeks to resolve some existing tensions by tackling complex constellations of well-being profiles among both entrepreneurs and wage employees. Our latent profile analysis and commentary suggest the multifaceted nature of self-employment experiences, straddling both personal and business goals that may not always be hedonic, as an important consideration for future research on entrepreneurial well-being.

Keywords: Entrepreneur Careers; Entrepreneurial well-being; Entrepreneur personality; Latent profile analysis; Eudaimonic well-being scale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2021.e00293

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