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Bui, T. T. M., Tran, M. D., & Vu, T. A. (2023). Measurement of hard-life experiences through the psychological sense: the SEM approach. Journal of International Economics and Management, 23(2), 45-62. https://doi.org/10.38203/jiem.023.2.0069
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Measurement of hard-life experiences through the psychological sense: the SEM approach
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This paper aims to develop a scale for hard-life experiences through a psychological sense. Past hardships can impact individuals' cognition, stress levels, and resilience. Learning about hard-life experiences is one aspect of longitudinal studies on the historical life of key leaders, focusing on the traumatic feelings from childhood to adulthood. The sample consists of answers from 149 key leaders who are business owners, managers, and entrepreneurs in Vietnam. The structural equation modeling was applied to investigate the validity and reliability of hard-life experience measurement scales with two coherent constructs. This study discovers two sub-scales chronic and acute hard-life experiences to measure key leaders’ hardship during their lifetime, equivalent for the period of childhood up to adolescence, and the adult period of individual key leaders essentially. This study makes a significant contribution by introducing a new benchmark to the existing literature on the experiences of business owners, crucial managers, and entrepreneurs. Scholars can use this scale to investigate relationships between hard-life experience factors and others by quantitative methods.
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Hard-life experiences, Manager, Entrepreneur, Business owner, Measurement
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Pugh, W.M., Erickson, J., Rubin, R.T., Gunderson, E.E. and Rahe, C.R.H. (1971), “Cluster analyses of life changes: II. Method and replication in Navy subpopulations”, Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol. 25 No. 4, pp. 333 - 339.
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Sarason, I.G., Johnson, J.H. and Siegel, J.M. (1978), “Assessing the impact of life changes: development of the life experiences survey”, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol. 46 No. 5, pp. 932 - 946.
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Schmitt-Rodermund, E. (2007), “The long way to entrepreneurship: Personality, parenting, early interests, and competencies as precursors for entrepreneurial activity among the ‘Termites’”, in Silbereisen, R.K. and Lerner, R.M. (Eds.), Approaches to Positive Youth Development, Sage, London, pp. 205 - 224.
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Sims, D. (2003), “Between the millstones: a narrative account of the vulnerability of middle managers’ storying”, Human Relations, Vol. 56 No. 10, pp. 1195 - 1211.
Skinner, H.A. and Lei, H. (1980), “The multi-dimensional assessment of stressful life events”, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol. 168 No. 9, pp. 535 - 541.
Stewart Jr, W.H., Watson, W.E., Carland, J.C. and Carland, J.W. (1999), “A proclivity for entrepreneurship: a comparison of entrepreneurs, small business owners, and corporate managers”, Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 14 No. 2, pp. 189 - 214.
Thoits, P.A. (1981), “Undesirable life events and psychophysiological distress: a problem of operational confounding”, American Sociological Review, Vol. 46 No. 1, pp. 97 - 109.
Tausig, M. (1982), “Measuring life events”, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 23 No. 1, pp. 52 - 64.
Ulvenblad, P., Berggren, E. and Winborg, J. (2013), “The role of entrepreneurship education and start‐ up experience for handling communication and liability of newness”, International Journal of
Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, Vol. 19 No. 2, pp. 187 - 209.
Venugopal, S., Viswanathan, M. and Jung, K. (2015), “Consumption constraints and entrepreneurial intentions in subsistence marketplaces”, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Vol. 34 No. 2, pp. 235 - 251.
Vinokur, A. and Selzer, M.L. (1973), “Life events, stress and mental distress”, in Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, American Psychological Association, Washington D.C.
Vinokur, A. and Selzer, M.L. (1975), “Desirable versus undesirable life events: their relationship to stress and mental distress”, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 32 No. 2, pp. 329 - 337.
Wang, K.C., Hsieh, A.T., Chou, S.H. and Lin, Y.S. (2007), “GPTCCC: an instrument for measuring group package tour service”, Tourism Management, Vol. 28 No. 2, pp. 361 - 376.
Williams, S. and Schaefer, A. (2013), “Small and medium‐sized enterprises and sustainability: managers' values and engagement with environmental and climate change issues”, Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol. 22 No. 3, pp. 173 - 186.
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