Abstract
Entrepreneurial resilience refers to the capacity to face, overcome and project oneself after suffering life events with a negative impact. Emerging adulthood and the characteristics of university life facilitate the occurrence of stressful situations that can affect well-being. The aim of this phenomenological research is to explore the strategic components of entrepreneurial resilience and how young university students have shaped their entrepreneurial resilience after experiencing negative life events. The present research is a multiple case study that was developed through a mixed methodology. The methodological sequence was quantitative and qualitative, with priority given to the qualitative phase of the research. Ten university students with high levels of resilience were interviewed. The data were analysed using thematic analysis. The results indicate that resilience is built through intrapersonal and exopersonal processes. These processes make up a set of strategic dimensions related to entrepreneurial behaviour that are used for the construction of personal projects.
Highlights
Psychological resilience is a conceptually complex term that raises discrepancies in its understanding depending on the personality traits, processes and outcomes involved [1–3]
Certain recurrent terms related to resilience have been extracted, such as coping capacity, adversity, risk factors, stressful situations, suffering and positive adaptation [6]
The aim of this research is to explore the strategic components of the entrepreneurial profile of ten young university students and how they have shaped their entrepreneurial resilience after experiencing negative life events (NLEs)
Summary
Psychological resilience is a conceptually complex term that raises discrepancies in its understanding depending on the personality traits, processes and outcomes involved [1–3] This is corroborated by bibliometric studies that show a broad, diverse and fragmented state of the art [4,5]. Despite this conceptual heterogeneity, certain recurrent terms related to resilience have been extracted, such as coping capacity, adversity, risk factors, stressful situations, suffering and positive adaptation [6]. Certain recurrent terms related to resilience have been extracted, such as coping capacity, adversity, risk factors, stressful situations, suffering and positive adaptation [6] This terminological list leads to an approach of resilience as a multidimensional construct that involves the combination of biological, social, cultural and psychological processes [7] promoting adaptation and resistance to circumstances that are detrimental to physical and psychological well-being, whether in the social, personal, family or work sphere [8–10]. The term “entrepreneurship education” is linked to entrepreneurial creation and business [17]
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