Dispositional Positive and Negative Affect and Self-Employment Transitions: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction
研究了倾向性积极和消极情感如何通过工作满意度影响人们进入自我雇佣（创业）的决定，发现消极情感更强的人工作满意度更低，从而更可能成为创业者。
Affect is increasingly studied within entrepreneurship. We develop a partial mediation model in which positive and negative dispositional affect influences entry into entrepreneurship, suggesting that those experiencing greater negative affect experience less job satisfaction and are more likely to enter entrepreneurship. Using a novel methodological approach to capture affective disposition, we test our model on a large panel dataset from Australia, finding support for our hypotheses. These findings provide a much-needed counterbalance to the prevailing focus in entrepreneurship on the positive consequences of positive affect and introduce affect into the study of the fundamental question of why some people but not others become entrepreneurs in the first place.