Touray, Yasmine (2022) Entrepreneurs’ Threat Appraisal Effect on Coping Styles. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Next to successful business ideas, self-efficacy and independence, entrepreneurship comprises a high workload, long working hours and daily stressful work encounters which can be appraised as threatening. Therefore, coping plays an important role in an entrepreneur’s life to overcome stressful events in order to lead a successful venture. Based on the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping by Lazarus and Folkman (1987), the purpose of this study was to investigate how entrepreneurs’ threat appraisal of an adverse work event influenced their coping styles. It was predicted that threat appraisal was (a) positively related to problem-focused coping and (b) negatively related to emotion-focused coping. A cross-sectional research design was implemented and in total 136 entrepreneurs were recruited to fill out an online questionnaire. By using multiple linear regression, the main effects between threat appraisal on problem-focused coping and threat appraisal on emotion-focused coping revealed that entrepreneurs engaged in both coping styles when being threatened by an adverse work event. Gender was used as a moderator to analyze possible gender differences in relation to the main effects. Results showed that gender had no influence on how entrepreneurs appraised and coped with stressful encounters. Results are discussed in terms of functions of coping styles and gender equality in the entrepreneurial environment. In addition, an exploratory analysis laid focus on single coping strategies which make up the two main coping styles and showed that they highly differ in significance and function. Keywords: entrepreneurship, problem-focused coping, emotion-focused coping, threat appraisal, gender differences
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Kleine, A.K. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology (WOP) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2022 09:07 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Feb 2022 09:07 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/126 |
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