Personalidad emprendedora, responsabilidad, autocontrol y grit: El lado psicológico del autoempleo

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/analesps.453711
Palabras clave: Personalidad emprendedora, Autocontrol, Responsabilidad, Grit, Autoempleo, Emprendimiento

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El enfoque psicológico en torno a la actividad emprendedora contribuye a explicar por qué las personas deciden o no emprender. El objetivo del presente estudio es analizar diferentes perfiles de personalidad emprendedora, así como identificar las variables de personalidad que puedan explicar el convertirse en trabajador por cuenta propia. Empleando una muestra de 586 participantes (Medad= 39,31; DTedad= 14,66), se analizaron diferentes perfiles de personalidad emprendedora mediante técnicas de análisis de perfiles latentes. Además, se analizó si había diferencias en otras variables psicológicas en función del perfil de personalidad emprendedora. Finalmente, se estudió, mediante un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales, si la responsabilidad, el autocontrol, el grit y la personalidad emprendedora ayudan a explicar que las personas se conviertan en trabajadores por cuenta propia. Los resultados apoyan la existencia de tres perfiles latentes de personalidad emprendedora (baja, media y alta), siendo el perfil alta personalidad emprendedora el que muestra mayores puntuaciones en otras variables psicológicas, así como mayor proporción de trabajadores por cuenta propia. El modelo de ecuaciones estructurales planteado explica un 2,6% de la varianza de la variable ser trabajador autónomo, por lo que las variables de personalidad ayudan a explicar una pequeña parte de la actividad emprendedora.

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25-04-2021
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Postigo, Álvaro, Cuesta, M., & García-Cueto, E. (2021). Personalidad emprendedora, responsabilidad, autocontrol y grit: El lado psicológico del autoempleo . Anales de Psicología / Annals of Psychology, 37(2), 361–370. https://doi.org/10.6018/analesps.453711
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