Is Stress Worth it? Stress‐Related Health and Wealth Trade‐Offs for Entrepreneurs

By Melissa S. Cardon, Pankaj C. Patel. 2015

247 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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In General Health Professions

1. M. F. Bhuiyan
2. Marjan Gorgievski
3. J. Gish
4. A. Williamson
5. Milena Nikolova
6. Ute Stephan
7. A. Ivlevs

In Social Psychology

1. Ute Stephan
2. Marjan Gorgievski
3. J. Gish
4. A. Williamson
5. M. F. Bhuiyan
6. Milena Nikolova
7. A. Ivlevs

Citations in the corpus

• Switching to self-employment can be good for your health (2019, background): “Nonetheless, self-employment could worsen health if it entails reduced socialization, loneliness, long working hours, and role ambiguity (Cardon and Patel, 2015).”
• Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh (2019, background): “…are brought about by microcredit in a poor, traditional setting (Barenjee and Jackson, 2017; Guerin et al., 2014; Sandberg, 2012), which, in turn, are likely to be different from the type of stress experienced by entrepreneurs in developed countries (Cardon and Patel, 2015; Baron et al., 2016).”
• Entrepreneurs’ Mental Health and Well-Being: A Review and Research Agenda (2018, background): “Being an entrepreneur has been characterized as one of the most stressful jobs (Cardon & Patel, 2015; Patzelt & Shepherd, 2011), with average earnings that are lower than if entrepreneurs were to work as paid employees (Van Praag & Versloot, 2008).”
• Let’s Focus on Solutions to Entrepreneurial Ill-Being! Recovery Interventions to Enhance Entrepreneurial Well-Being (2021, methodology): “Indeed, research using physiological biomarkers of stress identifies greater “wear and tear” of the inflammatory, metabolic, and cardiovascular systems among entrepreneurs (Cardon & Patel, 2015; Patel et al., 2019).”
• Advancing the Psychology of Entrepreneurship: A Review of the Psychological Literature and an Introduction (2016, background): “A longitudinal study by Cardon and Patel (2013) reported evidence for a concurrent motivational and energy depleting processes.”