Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/327087 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Citation: 
[Journal:] BRQ Business Research Quarterly [ISSN:] 2340-9444 [Volume:] 28 [Issue:] 3 [Year:] 2025 [Pages:] 600-617
Publisher: 
Sage Publishing, London
Abstract: 
The self-employment coping literature typically treats coping strategies separately. In contrast to this approach, we introduce a control perspective to examine the effects of combining coping strategies on a highly salient well-being outcome for the self-employed: purpose in life. Drawing on the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) dataset (N = 693), moderation analysis reveals that persistence and positive reappraisal mitigate the negative effect of lowering aspirations on purpose in life. In robustness tests, we find consistent results across similar well-being indicators. Our evidence highlights the need to study specific coping strategies in tandem and provides a more nuanced perspective on the differential effects of both primary (i.e., persistence) and secondary (i.e., positive reappraisal and lowering aspirations) coping strategies.
Subjects: 
Eudaimonic well-being
Purpose in life
PIL
primary and secondary control
psychological functioning
self-employment
JEL: 
I
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Document Type: 
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