The psychological costs of owning and managing an SME: Linking job stressors, occupational loneliness, entrepreneurial orientation, and burnout

Fernet, Claude; Torrès, Olivier; Austin, Stéphanie; St‐Pierre, Josée

doi:10.1016/j.burn.2016.03.002

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“…The unique role of eudaimonic well-being indicators may also, at least to some extent, explain the mixed results regarding the self-employed having better or worse health than the organizationally employed individuals (Parslow et al 2004). As self-rated health and mental health have been shown to relate to work attendance, performance and business success, it is likely that even small improvements in the health status will make large contributions to a self-employed individual's energy, willpower, and psychological strength (Cocker et al 2013;Fernet et al 2016;Gorgievski et al 2010). Thus, interventions aiming at strengthening the eudaimonic well-being of the self-employed may be a good way to also improve their health.…”

Section: Understanding the Well-being Profilesmentioning

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Not All Are Equal: A Latent Profile Analysis of Well-Being Among the Self-Employed

2019

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This study uses a person-centered approach to distinguish between subpopulations of selfemployed individuals using multidimensional well-being indicators. Data were obtained from European Social Survey including a sample of 3461 self-employed individuals from 29 European countries. The analysis has empirically identified six distinct profiles named 'unhappy', 'languishing', 'happy', 'satisfied', 'passionate', and 'flourishing'. The profiles were associated with significant differences in well-being, health and work-related variables. The results highlight the heterogeneity of the self-employed population, and describe the complex-both hedonic and eudaimonic-character of the well-being concept in this population. Keywords Well-being • Self-employment • Person-centered • Latent profile analysis Thus far, little attention has been given to the heterogeneity among the self-employed in terms of their well-being. In general, the self-employed report high levels of well-being (Baron et al. 2016; Stephan and Roesler 2010; Uy et al. 2013). However, the positive relationship between self-employment and well-being may be limited to the rich (Alesina et al. 2001), to the younger and highly educated (Rietveld et al. 2015), to those who became self-employed out of opportunity rather than necessity (van der Zwan et al. 2016), to selfemployed with employees and to immigrant self-employed (Johansson Sevä et al. 2016).

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Section: Understanding the Well-being Profilesmentioning

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Not All Are Equal: A Latent Profile Analysis of Well-Being Among the Self-Employed

2019

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“…Gumpert and Boyd (1984), however, focused on loneliness of business owners. It may contribute to the likelihood of burnout as a factor contributing again to lower experience of mental health (Jamal 2007;Shepherd et al 2010;Ben Tahar 2014;Fernet et al 2016). This loneliness can be particularly harmful when difficult decisions have to be taken such as firing employees (Torrès 2011).…”

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Small business owners and health

Torrès

Thurik

2018

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“…Moreover, if they are owners of their company or enterprise, they are not protected by the social system. This area of research has been neglected up to now or extremely limited [40] and should be promoted as a quite relevant topic: Managers' health impacts on employees' health and on the company itself. In small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the manager feels often alone and cannot share his problems and doubts with his (her) employees that could lose confidence and feel unsafe for their job.…”

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The New Dimensions of Occupational Health

Guillemin¹

2019

Health

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Occupational Health (OH) is an important chapter of Public Health but its visibility is poor and continues to decrease. Examples of this worrying trend show that it impacts on our society regarding health of the working population and the retired individuals and on the economy through huge expenses for health, absenteeism, psychosocial problems, loss of performance and quality of work, etc. To cope with this challenge and to give its right place to OH, a global approach and a vision of this multidisciplinary field is needed as well as the development of emerging issues that stress, besides the prevention of occupational diseases, the promotion of "good health" through sciences like salutogenesis, positive psychology and the new findings of neuroscience. Moreover, all the partners involved in OH have to take their responsibility of this matter. The OH professionals have to enlarge the scope of their expertise; the academic institutions and research and education centers have to give more support to OH and the social partners and the decision-makers (politicians) have to put OH in their priorities. This paper is not a review of the new dimensions of OH but an overview of the emerging issues that have to be developed, based on the author's experience of more than 40 years.

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The psychological costs of owning and managing an SME: Linking job stressors, occupational loneliness, entrepreneurial orientation, and burnout

Cited by 91 publications

References 55 publications

Not All Are Equal: A Latent Profile Analysis of Well-Being Among the Self-Employed

Not All Are Equal: A Latent Profile Analysis of Well-Being Among the Self-Employed

Small business owners and health

The New Dimensions of Occupational Health

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