Abstract:

Entrepreneurs experience elevated levels of psychological stress, however, ambiguous results exist on how efficiently they cope with stress. It is hypothesized that people who choose the entrepreneur’s career may be predisposed to use more efficient strategies of coping with stress in comparison to non-entrepreneurs due to the association between entrepreneurial personality dispositions and coping behavior. The objective of this study was to verify whether the levels of entrepreneurial personality dispositions are indeed related to the use of specific strategies of coping with stress and to specific coping styles.