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https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2094439
Why women’s entrepreneurial activities are low in China? The psychological perspective of self-esteem
Zhongwu Li
Fengzhi Lu
Xueliang Feng
Sažetak
How to increase women’s entrepreneurial activities and expand
the proportion of female entrepreneurs among entire entrepreneurs
has been the long-term focus of scholars. For the first time,
this article uses the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) and the
National Survey on Women’s Social Status of China (NSWSS) to
study why women’s entrepreneurial activities are relatively low in
China from the psychological perspective of self-esteem. After
controlling for related variables, the regression results show that
self-esteem has a positive effect on women’s entrepreneurial
activities. It indicates that the relatively low entrepreneurial activities
of women are partially attributed to their low level of selfesteem.
In addition, compared with cognitive ability and ‘The Big
Five’ non-cognitive ability, self-esteem plays a greater role in
explaining women’s entrepreneurial activities. While using propensity
score matching and instrument variable methods to deal
with the self-selection bias and endogenous problem of selfesteem,
the results corroborate the conclusion. Further analysis
indicates that social capital and risk-taking attitudes are two
important mechanisms for self-esteem to influence women’s
entrepreneurial activities. The attempt to incorporate the unique
psychological trait of self-esteem into female entrepreneurship
sheds light on the interdisciplinary research, and provides a new
path for improving women’s entrepreneurial activities.
Ključne riječi
Self-esteem; women’s entrepreneurial activities; China Family Panel Studies (CFPS); National Survey on Women’s Social Status of China (NSWSS)
Hrčak ID:
304200
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.3.2023.
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