ADHD and entrepreneurship: Beyond person-entrepreneurship fit

Tucker, Reginald; Zuo, Lu; Marino, Louis; Lowman, Graham H.; Sleptsov, Alexander

doi:10.1016/j.jbvi.2020.e00219

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“…Our results revealed that attention-deficit symptoms were negatively and significantly related to entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviors through entrepreneurial self-efficacy. This finding was consistent with previous reports (14,15). Tucker et al (15) concluded that individuals with attentiondeficit symptoms failed to show self-efficacy in the entrepreneurial context, especially in identifying opportunities.…”

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Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Entrepreneurial Behavior: A Mediation Analysis

Isfahani

Sadeghi

Shakibaei

et al. 2022

Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci

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Background: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and entrepreneurship are two concepts that have recently received attention from researchers. Objectives: This study aimed to find the relationship between ADHD symptoms and entrepreneurial behavior with the mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and attitude, as well as to assess the relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial behavior with the mediating role of entrepreneurial attitude. Methods: This study was conducted on 388 Iranian entrepreneurs in 2021. The Entrepreneurial Behavior Scale, the Entrepreneurial Attitude Questionnaire, the Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy Scale, and the Adult ADHD Self-report Scale were used to collect the data. Data were analyzed using Mplus software (version 8). Results: The results revealed that hyperactivity/impulsivity symptoms were positively and significantly related to entrepreneurial behavior (P < 0.001), and attention-deficit symptoms were negatively and significantly related to entrepreneurial behavior and entrepreneurial attitude, mediated through entrepreneurial self-efficacy (P < 0.01). Conclusions: Our findings suggest that the entrepreneurial behaviors and entrepreneurial attitudes of individuals with ADHD symptoms depend on their entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Our findings hold important implications for empowering individuals with ADHD symptoms in the entrepreneurial path.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

“…Research revealed a significant relationship between ADHD symptoms and various entrepreneurial variables, including entrepreneurial intentions (13), entrepreneurial actions (2), and entrepreneurial orientation (7). However, a negative relationship has been reported between ADHD symptoms and entrepreneurial self-efficacy (14,15).…”

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confidence: 99%

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Entrepreneurial Behavior: A Mediation Analysis

Isfahani

Sadeghi

Shakibaei

et al. 2022

Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci

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“…First , following previous studies (Thurik et al , 2016; Verheul et al , 2016; Wiklund et al , 2017), this study also concentrates on the underlying ADHD symptoms rather than ADHD diagnosis, so, the six-item adult ADHD self-report scale (ASR-6), developed by the World Health Organization (Kessler et al , 2005), is used to measure ADHD symptoms. This is a screening scale that is used for general population and has been validated in many studies (Canits et al , 2019; Hatak et al , 2020; Kessler et al , 2005; Gunia et al , 2021; Thurik et al , 2016; Tucker et al , 2021; Moore et al , 2019; Verheul et al , 2015; Wiklund et al , 2017; Wismans et al , 2020). This scale consists of six questions which measure on five-point scales (1 = never; 5 = very often) with four inattentive symptoms and two hyperactive symptoms.…”

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“…Finally, almost all previous studies that have explore the relationship between ADHD and entrepreneurship only focused on ADHD symptoms instead of clinical diagnosis (Canits et al, 2019;Hatak et al, 2020;Gunia et al, 2021;Moore et al, 2019;Patel et al, 2021;Rajah et al, 2021;Tucker et al, 2021;Verheul et al, 2015;Verheul et al, 2016;Wiklund et al, 2017;Wismans et al, 2020), except for Greidanus and Liao (2021), Dimic and Orlov (2014) and Lerner et al (2019). ADHD symptoms include two clusters: inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity (APA, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, considering ADHD symptoms may capture the fundamental continuous nature of ADHD more accurately (Barkley, 2014) and concentrating on ADHD symptoms allows us investigating the effects of full range of ADHD symptoms, even examination of potential nonlinearity (Yu et al , 2019). Finally , almost all previous studies that have explore the relationship between ADHD and entrepreneurship only focused on ADHD symptoms instead of clinical diagnosis (Canits et al , 2019; Hatak et al , 2020; Gunia et al , 2021; Moore et al , 2019; Patel et al , 2021; Rajah et al , 2021; Tucker et al , 2021; Verheul et al , 2015; Verheul et al , 2016; Wiklund et al , 2017; Wismans et al , 2020), except for Greidanus and Liao (2021), Dimic and Orlov (2014) and Lerner et al (2019).…”

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ADHD symptoms and entrepreneurial intention among Vietnamese college students: an empirical study

Duong

2021

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Purpose This study aims to develop a conceptual framework that integrated insights from Shapero and Sokol (1982)’s model of entrepreneurial event, Bandura (1977)’s social learning theory and clinical psychology to empirically test and discover the underlying mechanism of how attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) symptoms can influence student entrepreneurial intention. Design/methodology/approach The study uses structural equation modeling with a sample of 2,218 students from 14 universities in Vietnam. Findings The research reveals that although ADHD symptoms are not found to have the direct role in shaping student perceived feasibility entrepreneurial intention, these psychiatric symptoms have more influences and significances in the growth of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and perceived desirability. Also, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and perceived desirability are found to be full mediators in ADHD symptoms and entrepreneurial intention linkage. Besides, both perceived desirability and perceived feasibility partially mediate the entrepreneurial self-efficacy effect on entrepreneurial intention. Practical implications The findings provide policymakers and universities with important insights into how to nurture intention to become entrepreneurs among college students, especially those individuals. Originality/value The present study offers a new insight about the linkage between ADHD symptoms and entrepreneurial intention. Also, the model of entrepreneurial event and the social learning theory are shown to be unifying theoretical construct of the relationship between psychiatric symptoms and entrepreneurial intention among Vietnamese students.

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