Intrapreneurial Self-Capital: A Primary Preventive Resource for Twenty-First Century Entrepreneurial Contexts

Fabio, Annamaria Di; Duradoni, Mirko

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01060

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“…In conclusion, intrapreneurial self-capital is essential for undergraduates to acquire a flourishing life [31]. Undergraduates that are satisfied with their life could work under pressure and produce innovative ideas.…”

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Exploring the Role of Malaysian Student’s Intrapreneurial Self-Capital in the Relationship between Satisfaction with Life, Academic Performance, and Flourishing

2020

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Intrapreneurial self-capital is the construct coined by Di Fabio as a core of individual resources used to cope with career and life construction challenges. In this study, we used the model of Individual Differences in Evaluating Life Satisfaction (IDELS) to examine the mediating role of intrapreneurial self-capital in the relationship between life satisfaction and flourishing among Malaysian undergraduate students. The Intrapreneurial Self-Capital Scale (ISCS), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), and Flourishing Scale were administered to 665 undergraduate students from one of the public universities in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. The results reported a significant direct effect of student satisfaction with life to flourishing. A significant path coefficient was also found from satisfaction with life and student academic performance to intrapreneurial self-concept providing the support that student satisfaction with life and academic performance has a positive effect on their intrapreneurial self-concept. The coefficients from intrapreneurial self-concept to flourishing was also significant. This provides initial support that an intrapreneurial self-concept may have a positive mediating effect on the relationship between satisfaction with life, academic performance, and flourishing. We found that the indirect effects of satisfaction with life and academic performance on flourishing through intrapreneurial self-concept were significant. These results provided further support for the mediating effect of intrapreneurial self-concept. The analysis also that revealed satisfaction with life was significantly and positively related to flourishing. However, the finding showed no significant direct effect of student academic performance on flourishing.

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Exploring the Role of Malaysian Student’s Intrapreneurial Self-Capital in the Relationship between Satisfaction with Life, Academic Performance, and Flourishing

2020

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“…The research in this area has recently intensified its efforts towards personality traits, which are traditionally considered stable [27], but it has also begun to consider factors different from personality. Therefore, other constructs have been taken into account within the psychology of sustainability and sustainable development; among these, intrapreneurial self-capital (ISC) has received increasing consideration [28][29][30][31]. The ISC construct has been defined by Di Fabio [28] as a higher-order construct (i.e., a core of individual resources) that includes the following first-order constructs: core self-evaluation, hardiness, creative self-efficacy, resilience, goal mastery, decisiveness, and vigilance.…”

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Intrapreneurial Self-Capital and Connectedness to Nature within Organizations

Duradoni

Fabio

2019

Sustainability

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Research exists regarding personality traits in relation to connectedness with nature. However, it is not possible to increase personality through training. As an alternative, intrapreneurial self-capital (ISC) could be a promising core of resources for enhancing the sustainable development of behaviors and practices. Using a sample of 198 workers, this study exploratively analyzed the relationship between the extraversion personality trait, ISC, and connectedness to nature. A mediation model was employed to assess the effects of extraversion on connectedness to nature (outcome variable) through ISC (conceived as an intervening mediator variable). The mediation analysis highlighted that ISC potentially promotes workers’ connectedness to nature within organizations. Thus, implementing dedicated interventions to increase ISC could encourage sustainable development by enhancing workers’ levels of connectedness to nature.

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“…A positive correlation emerges between connectedness to nature and the WAMI as predicted by our first hypothesis (H1). The relationship between ISC and the WAMI is confirmed [21,22,23,24], showing that ISC is also positively related to the particular measure of well-being at work involved in our study (H2). Therefore, based on our results, the contribution of ISC to people’s well-being appears to be strengthened even more when work meaning is considered [42].…”

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“…Indeed, primary prevention research is focused both on reducing risks and on building people’s strengths to adaptively cope with the demands of the current era. Among these psychological resources, intrapreneurial self-capital (ISC) appears to be particularly promising, since it entertains positive relationships with both well-being measures [21,22,23,24] and connectedness to nature [25]. ISC is a higher-order construct (i.e., a core of individual resources) that is defined by the following aspects: core self-evaluation, hardiness, creative self-efficacy, resilience, goal mastery, decisiveness, and vigilance [26].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although the relationship between well-being and connectedness to nature appears to have been consolidated [19,20], it has never been tested using more specific and suitable predictors for workers. Similarly, past ISC results strictly related to workers’ and students’ well-being [21,22,23,24], but a gap still exists in reference to ISC and measures completely designed to capture well-being within the work environment.…”

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Intrapreneurial Self-Capital Mediates the Connectedness to Nature Effect on Well-Being at Work

Fabio

Palazzeschi

Duradoni

2019

IJERPH

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Researchers are being called upon to find and explore viable solutions to protect the environment and promote health in the new digital era of the 21st century, since the rapid changes transpiring within our technological societies may be detrimental to workers but also offer opportunities for growth. The concept of connectedness to nature, on the one hand, is a proxy for important environmentally protective and responsible behaviors; on the other, it has been studied in relation to people’s well-being. To promote health, it is crucial to act from a primary prevention perspective, which is focused on finding variables that can be increased through specific training. In this framework, intrapreneurial self-capital (ISC) appears to be related both to people’s connectedness to nature and their well-being. This study analyzes exploratively the relationship between connectedness to nature, ISC, and well-being at work, since these variables have never been studied together. A mediation model is tested to assess whether ISC could mediate the relationship between connectedness to nature and workers’ well-being. The mediation analysis highlights that ISC, as a core of preventive resources, potentially sustains the effect of feeling connected to nature on well-being at work. Thus, interventions aimed at increasing and acquiring preventive resources, such as ISC, could be beneficial in protecting the environment and in promoting health among workers.

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Intrapreneurial Self-Capital: A Primary Preventive Resource for Twenty-First Century Entrepreneurial Contexts

Cited by 8 publications

References 73 publications

Exploring the Role of Malaysian Student’s Intrapreneurial Self-Capital in the Relationship between Satisfaction with Life, Academic Performance, and Flourishing

Exploring the Role of Malaysian Student’s Intrapreneurial Self-Capital in the Relationship between Satisfaction with Life, Academic Performance, and Flourishing

Intrapreneurial Self-Capital and Connectedness to Nature within Organizations

Intrapreneurial Self-Capital Mediates the Connectedness to Nature Effect on Well-Being at Work

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