Fodor Oana C, Pintea Sebastian
Department of Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Front Psychol. 2017 Mar 13;8:310. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00310. eCollection 2017.
The experience of work in an entrepreneurial context is saturated with emotional experiences. While the literature on the relation between affect and entrepreneurial performance (EP) is growing, there was no quantitative integration of the results so far. This study addresses this gap and meta-analytically integrates the results from 17 studies ( = 3810) in order to estimate the effect size for the relation between positive (PA) and negative affect (NA), on the one hand, and EP, on the other hand. The meta-analysis includes studies in English language, published until August 2016. The results indicate a significant positive relation between PA and EP, = 0.18. The overall NA - EP relation was not significant, = -0.12. Only state NA has a significant negative relation with EP ( = -0.16). The moderating role of several conceptual (i.e., emotion duration, integrality etc.), sample (i.e., gender, age, education) and methodological characteristics of the studies (i.e., type of measurements etc.) are explored and implications for future research are discussed.
在创业环境中的工作经历充满了情感体验。虽然关于情感与创业绩效（EP）之间关系的文献不断增加，但迄今为止尚未对研究结果进行定量整合。本研究填补了这一空白，并通过元分析整合了17项研究（N = 3810）的结果，以估计一方面积极情感（PA）和消极情感（NA）与另一方面创业绩效之间关系的效应量。该元分析纳入了截至2016年8月发表的英文研究。结果表明，积极情感与创业绩效之间存在显著正相关，r = 0.18。消极情感与创业绩效的总体关系不显著，r = -0.12。只有状态消极情感与创业绩效存在显著负相关（r = -0.16）。本研究探讨了若干概念性特征（如情感持续时间、整体性等）、样本特征（如性别、年龄、教育程度）和研究方法特征（如测量类型等）的调节作用，并讨论了对未来研究的启示。
