Entrepreneurs' stressors and well-being: A recovery perspective and diary study

Dominika Wach; Ute Stephan; Eva Weinberger; Jürgen Wegge

doi:10.1016/j.jbusvent.2020.106016

Entrepreneurs' stressors and well-being: A recovery perspective and diary study

Dominika Wach^*
, Ute Stephan
, Eva Weinberger
, Jürgen Wegge

^*Corresponding author for this work

Economics and International Business

University of Technology Dresden

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Abstract

Although entrepreneurs are said to have extremely stressful work, how they may be able to maintain their well-being in light of this is only poorly understood. Newly integrating the challenge-hindrance stressor framework with the stressor-detachment model of recovery from work stress, we investigate how specific challenge and hindrance stressors—cognitive and emotional demands—impact entrepreneurs' well-being by influencing their ability to detach and recover from work stress. Our diary study yielded 386 day-pair data points from 55 entrepreneurs. Challenge and hindrance stressors inhibited psychological detachment from work in the evening through increasing problem-solving pondering and work-related affective rumination, which diminished entrepreneurs' well-being the next morning. These effects are robust to alternative explanations (e.g., objectively measured sleep efficiency) and differ from relationships observed across entrepreneurs. Our findings elucidate the nature of stressors and the micro-foundational mechanisms of stress and recovery.

Original language	English
Article number	106016
Journal	Journal of Business Venturing
Volume	36
Issue number	5
Early online date	10 Mar 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2020.106016
Publication status	Published - Sept 2021

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The first and second authors contributed equally to the manuscript and are listed in reverse alphabetical order. We gratefully acknowledge the help of Martin Bormuth, Julia G?tze, Thomas Grafe, Kai Krannich, Philipp Lubensky, Stefanie Richter, and Robert Winkler in the data collection. We thank the editor Maw-Der Foo and the anonymous reviewers for helping us to develop our work. We also thank Ian Macdonald for the helpful discussion, as well as Joakim Wincent, Lule? University of Technology and Hanken School of Economics, and Michael Frese, National University Singapore and Leuphana University, who provided feedback on the earlier drafts or presentations of this paper. This publication draws on the same data base as Weinberger et al. (2018). Having a creative day. Journal of Business Venturing. However, the two publications analyze several variables that are unique to each publication including the dependent variables and key predictor variables.

Keywords

Affective rumination
Challenge and hindrance stressors
Detachment
Diary study
Problem-solving pondering
Recovery
Stress
Well-being

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