Datta, Rupsha (2022) A Domino Effect of Work Events: Linking Entrepreneurs’ Response to Adverse Work Events, Affective Reactions, and Effects on Job Satisfaction. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Satisfaction is one of the key measures to entrepreneurial success (Cooper & Artz, 1995). The present paper investigates the antecedents to entrepreneurial job satisfaction based on the Affective Events Theory (AET; Weiss & Cropanzano (1996). This study investigated the effect of adverse work events on negative emotional arousal and job satisfaction amongst entrepreneurs with a sample of n = 136 entrepreneurs. We hypothesized that adverse work events are positively linked to negative emotional arousal and negatively linked to job satisfaction. Additionally, negative emotional arousal is negatively linked to job satisfaction and mediates the relationship between adverse work events and job satisfaction. Regression and mediation analysis revealed that the results aligned with the predictions and the AET (Weiss & Cropanzano, 1996). This study contributes to entrepreneurial literature and organization research based on entrepreneurs. This study also extends the Affective Events Theory (Weiss & Cropanzano, 1996) literature towards entrepreneurs and confirms that the AET can be used to understand job satisfaction at the entrepreneurial workplace.
| 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: | 18 Jan 2022 15:05 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2022 15:05 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/57 |
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