High workload and investor conflicts: Short-term and sustained effects on entrepreneurial resilience
研究高工作负荷和投资者冲突如何通过感知压力影响创业者的韧性，发现短期两者均降低韧性，但长期高工作负荷反而提升韧性，心理脱离可缓解短期负面效应。
Psychological resilience is important in entrepreneurship, yet little is known about how short-term and sustained exposure to entrepreneurial stressors influences resilience. Drawing on the challenge–hindrance stressor framework, we examine whether high workload (challenge stressor) and conflicts with investors (hindrance stressor) differentially shape entrepreneurs’ resilience, and whether psychological detachment moderates these associations in the short term. Using survey data from 270 entrepreneurs collected over one year, we found that, in the short term, both stressors are associated with lower resilience via perceived stress, with psychological detachment moderating these effects. Over sustained exposure, high workload relates positively to resilience, whereas conflicts with investors relates negatively. We advance entrepreneurship research by clarifying how challenge and hindrance stressors strengthen or weaken resilience over time, and by identifying psychological detachment as a short-term coping mechanism. Practically, entrepreneurs can benefit from detachment practices under acute stress, while sustained workload may yield unexpected benefits for resilience.