Self-centered and self-employed: Gender and the relationship between narcissism and self-employment

Autor:	Pankaj C. Patel, Peter D. Harms, Joel B. Carnevale
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Marketing Entrepreneurship 05 social sciences medicine.disease Archival research Narcissistic personality disorder 0502 economics and business Self employed medicine Narcissism 050211 marketing medicine.symptom Psychology Social psychology 050203 business & management Career choice Self-employment
Zdroj:	Journal of Business Research. 121:170-179
ISSN:	0148-2963
DOI:	10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.08.028
Popis:	The present study draws from Person-Environment (P-E) Fit theory to examine the relationship between Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and self-employment status as well as the potential for gender to moderate this relationship. Two-wave archival data involving 29,000 respondents of a representative sample provided overall support for our predictions. The results show that although there is a small positive overall effect linking NPD with self-employment, this relationship is moderated by gender such that narcissistic women are less likely to be self-employed than narcissistic men. Moreover, exploratory results demonstrate that narcissists do not ultimately benefit from self-employment status. Specifically, there was no difference in the incomes of narcissists who were self-employed and those who were not. These results suggest that the effects of narcissism on career choice is more complicated than initially believed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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