Coping Humor of Entrepreneurs: Interaction Between Social Culture and Entrepreneurial Experience

Lin, Song; Li, Jing; Han, Rui

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01449

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“…Individuals who experience minimal problems with their surroundings may have an increased feeling of belonging to that environment because harmony is strengthened and they do not want to disconnect from the environment. Additionally, the use of humor as a coping mechanism increases sociocultural entrepreneurship (Lin, Li, & Han, 2018) and thus belongingness may increase. Individuals with increased belonging due to coping humor may be less affected by negative situations in their surroundings and this will strengthen subjective happiness.…”

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Exploring the relationship between coping humor and subjective happiness:belongingness and forgiveness as serial mediators

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2020

Health Psychology Report

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health psychology report • volume 8(3),  original article background Positive psychology plays an important role in strengthening mental health. Nevertheless, the relationships between variables have not been clarified yet. The present study used an undergraduate sample to test a mediation-based model of the cross-sectional association of coping humor with subjective happiness, as serially mediated by belongingness and forgiveness. participants and procedure A total of 306 valid participants (51.6% female and 48.4% male), ranging in age from 18 to 26, completed paper and pencil questionnaires assessing subjective happiness, coping humor, belongingness, and forgiveness. The bootstrapping procedure was used for serial mediation. results The results indicated a significant and positive link among subjective happiness, coping humor, belongingness, and forgiveness. In addition, serial mediation analysis revealed that coping humor was associated with higher belongingness, which was associated with increased forgiveness, which were then associated with more subjective happiness. Therefore, coping humor was indirectly associated with more subjective happiness via belongingness and forgiveness, in a serial fashion. conclusions These findings indicated that coping humor could help university students' belongingness, and improve forgiveness, thereby enhancing their subjective happiness. We suggest possible prevention and intervention programs for increasing subjective happiness among individuals with low coping humor and suggest courses for future inquiry. We also discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings.

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Exploring the relationship between coping humor and subjective happiness:belongingness and forgiveness as serial mediators

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2020

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“…Coping humor refers to “using humor as a means of coping with stressful experiences” [ 110 ] (p. 1316). Although humor can help FEs to control stressful events, the role of humor in managing stress arising from entrepreneurial failure has been rarely studied [ 111 ]. Thus, this study focuses on assessing the stress-buffering effects of coping humor.…”

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“…Thus, humor encourages a positive view that allows for an evaluation of the feasibility of re-entry without stress. In other words, humor may fortify the influence of optimism on the intent to re-enter by mitigating the stress associated with re-entry [ 111 ].…”

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How Do Failed Entrepreneurs Cope with Their Prior Failure When They Seek Subsequent Re-Entry into Serial Entrepreneurship? Failed Entrepreneurs’ Optimism and Defensive Pessimism and Coping Humor as a Moderator

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2021

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Entrepreneurial failure is prevalent, and particularly when the COVID−19 crisis exacerbates the economic recession, it becomes even more prevalent. Entrepreneurs experience an intensive emotional crisis when their ventures fail, and this deleterious impact, including stress and emotional pain, may prevent failed entrepreneurs (FEs) from restarting; hence, how they cope with failure has received increased attention in recent years. However, most of the extant literature focuses on success rather than failure, and there is very limited literature on how FEs cope with the psychological and emotional crisis caused by failure. This study focuses on FEs’ use of optimism and defensive pessimism as coping strategies within the mental simulation theory with respect to their re-entry intentions. It examines the impact of career ambition and public self-awareness on optimism, of the fear of failure (FoF) and self-doubt, on defensive pessimism, and of coping humor as a moderator. We used structural equation modeling to analyze the data of 277 Korean FEs who have actual entrepreneurial failure experiences and actively prepared for their re-entry. The results show that career ambitions and public self-awareness have an impact on optimism, and FoF and self-doubt lead to defensive pessimism. Coping humor also has a moderating effect on the path from defensive pessimism to the intention to re-enter. This study advances the literature on coping mechanisms that FEs employ to manage the negative impact of failure and prepare for their subsequent re-entry. Its theoretical model, based on the mental simulation theory combined with social comparison theory, provides a possible integrative framework that includes both the pervasively held view of entrepreneurs’ optimism related to overconfidence and their defensive pessimism related to their vulnerability due to their ventures’ failure. Thus, this study makes theoretical contributions to the literature of entrepreneurial failure, as well as practical implications for policymakers and educators who assist FEs in successfully coping with entrepreneurial failure and re-entry.

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“…Current academic research regarding the impact of previous entrepreneurial experience on entrepreneurial performance focus on different aspects. For example, scholars represented by Boso et al [10], Vaillant and Lafuente [47], and Lin et al [48] mainly focus on the effect of entrepreneurs' start-up experience on entrepreneurial performance; scholars represented by Gu and Su [49] and Zhao and Jung [50] pay more attention to the entrepreneur's industry experience and work experience; Dangelo and Presutti [33] and Batjargal et al [18] concentrate more on the entrepreneur's previous management experience; while Zhao et al [12] mainly focus on entrepreneur's marketing experience.…”

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“…Among a large amount of literature on the relationship between entrepreneurial experience and entrepreneurial performance with different concerns, entrepreneurs' previous start-up experience has received widespread attention from scholars in recent years. Focusing on the particularity of entrepreneurs' previous experience in starting a business, Boso et al [10], Chen and Pan [35], Dangelo and Presutti [33], Vaillant and Lafuente [47] and Lin et al [48] found the close relationship between the entrepreneur's previous start-up experience and the success or failure of the subsequent entrepreneurship.…”

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Entrepreneurial Experience and Performance: From the Aspect of Sustainable Growth of Enterprises

2020

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In the uncertain entrepreneurial ecosystem, scholarly knowledge is bounded by the sustainable growth of entrepreneurial enterprises. Moreover, there is a lack of consensus in academic circles on the relationship between entrepreneurial experience and entrepreneurial performance. In adopting the meta-analysis method, we found a significant relationship between entrepreneurial experience and entrepreneurial performance based on an investigation of 45 independent samples (N = 18,752). We also examined theoretically derived moderators of this relationship referring to firm age, industry condition and experience type to test whether the moderating effects can explain the inconsistent research results on the relationship between entrepreneurial experience and entrepreneurial performance. The relationship was stronger for the high-tech industry than for low-tech industry, for the early business stage than for late business stage and for start-up experience compared to management experience, work experience and industry experience. Our research findings are meaningful for practitioners to achieve sustainable growth by better preserving and coordinating entrepreneurial experience in a dynamic environment. Further, these findings are also important for future research to analyze the factors triggering the heterogeneity of entrepreneurial experience and to investigate the extent to which the start-up experience is more capable of promoting entrepreneurial performance.

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Coping Humor of Entrepreneurs: Interaction Between Social Culture and Entrepreneurial Experience

Cited by 9 publications

References 74 publications

Exploring the relationship between coping humor and subjective happiness:belongingness and forgiveness as serial mediators

Exploring the relationship between coping humor and subjective happiness:belongingness and forgiveness as serial mediators

How Do Failed Entrepreneurs Cope with Their Prior Failure When They Seek Subsequent Re-Entry into Serial Entrepreneurship? Failed Entrepreneurs’ Optimism and Defensive Pessimism and Coping Humor as a Moderator

Entrepreneurial Experience and Performance: From the Aspect of Sustainable Growth of Enterprises

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