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Entrepreneurial tendency across the adult lifespan
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 17, Iss 2, p e0262856 (2022), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022.
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Abstract
- This study examines whether age associates with entrepreneurship tendencies across the lifespan, after taking into account aspects of personality that affect entrepreneurship. Participants (N = 963) aged 18–81, including 200 actual entrepreneurs, completed questionnaires about entrepreneurship tendency, personality traits, and attachment orientations. Results show that age is associated with a reduced tendency to engage in entrepreneurial activity. However, this decline is quite limited, it weakens with age, and is absent after age 50. In addition, the negative association of age with entrepreneurial tendency is smaller in participants with above-median entrepreneurship tendency scores relative to those with below-median scores, and it disappears in actual entrepreneurs. Furthermore, most of the traits that have been previously associated with entrepreneurial tendencies, especially Openness to Experience and Extraversion, remain unchanged with age, accounting for the stability of entrepreneurial tendency over time. The results have implications for policy makers who wish to encourage older adults to engage in entrepreneurial activity.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Personality Tests
Adolescent
Psychometrics
Economics
Science
Longevity
Social Sciences
Cultural Anthropology
Extraversion, Psychological
Young Adult
Elderly
Sociology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Humans
Psychology
Adults
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Neuroticism
Personality Traits
Behavior
Motivation
Multidisciplinary
Entrepreneurship
Cognitive Psychology
Biology and Life Sciences
Middle Aged
Religion
Age Groups
Anthropology
People and Places
Cognitive Science
Medicine
Female
Population Groupings
Finance
Personality
Research Article
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 17
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLOS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f35207ad95d1f03b2a777e2df44c1776