Self‐Employment and Job Satisfaction: Investigating the Role of Self‐Efficacy, Depression, and Seniority

By Don E. Bradley, James A. Roberts. 2004

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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Entrepreneurs’ Mental Health and Well-Being: A Review and Research Agenda (2018, background): “…resources 1 1 Stressors Demands 1* 2** 19 22 3 *Positive effect for new entrepreneurs: demands seemed to signal that the business is going well (Bradley & Roberts, 2004), **see manuscript text Role stressors 6 6 Long/ intense working hours 2* 1 8 2 13 1 *See manuscript text for positive…”
Determinants of job satisfaction: a European comparison of self-employed and paid employees (2011, neutral): “A consistent finding is that self-employed workers have higher levels of job satisfaction than employees (Bradley and Roberts 2004; Benz and Frey 2004, 2008; Blanchflower 2000; Blanchflower and Oswald 1998; Blanchflower et al. 2001; Parasuraman and Simmers 2001).”
Work-Related Depression among Hotel Employees (2009, background): “…that sales, customer service, and white-collar workers are more likely to have faced depression than blue-collar workers (Gilmour and Patten 2007; P. Wang et al. 2003), while entrepreneurs and selfemployed persons are less likely than other workers to be depressed (Bradley and Roberts 2004).”
When does entrepreneurial self-efficacy enhance versus reduce firm performance? (2008, background): “To this end, it is not surprising that entrepreneurs high in entrepreneurial self-effi cacy have been found to be higher in work satisfaction ( Bradley and Roberts, 2004 ) and lead their fi rms to higher levels of revenue and employment growth (Baum and Locke, 2004; Baum, Locke, and Smith, 2001) tha”
Entrepreneurship and culture (2010, background): “In many studies (Benz and Frey, 2008a, 2008b; Blanchflower and Oswald 1998; Bradley and Roberts 2004) the job satisfaction of the self-employed is, on average, found to be higher than, or at least equal to, that of salaried employees.”
Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Psychological Functioning (2019, background): “This is because entrepreneurs face extreme working conditions—a higher level of uncertainty, job insecurity, more extended work hours, role ambiguity, and intense time-pressure (see Bradley & Roberts, 2004; van Praag & Versloot, 2007; Parker, 2009).”
Work‐family conflict and job satisfaction in stressful working environments (2011, background): “of control tend to have higher levels of job satisfaction and performance ( Bradley and Roberts, 2004”
Life satisfaction and self-employment: a matching approach (2010, background): “…decision have tended to pool together new entrants into self-employment and senior self-employed individuals, implicitly grouping together individuals who have spent greatly different periods of time in self-employment, an approach which has recently been criticized (Bradley and Roberts, 2004).”
Assessment framework of the OECD Study on Social and Emotional Skills (2019, background): “High self-efficacy is related to higher job satisfaction and reduced workforce turnover (Cherian and Jacob, 2013[158]; Bradley and Roberts, 2004[159]).”
The impact of a necessity-based start-up on subsequent entrepreneurial satisfaction (2010, result): “The study checks for this possible explanation even though previous research has not found clear differences in satisfaction levels between newly self-employed and more experienced entrepreneurs (Bradley and Roberts 2004).”
Negative emotions of an entrepreneurial career: Self-employment and regulatory coping behaviors (2011, background): “Studies have also found that the self-employed display greater levels of job and life satisfaction than those who are employed (Blanchflower et al., 2001; Bradley and Roberts, 2004; Thompson et al., 1992).”
Is Stress Worth it? Stress‐Related Health and Wealth Trade‐Offs for Entrepreneurs (2015, background): “Selfemployment is stressful and requires hard work, long hours, emotional energy, heightened job stress, role ambiguity, and above all, risk (Buttner, 1992; Eden, 1975; Kaufmann, 1999; Lewin-Epstein & Yuchtman-Yar, 1991; Min, 1990)” (Bradley & Roberts, 2004, p. 39).”