The Influence of Entrepreneurs' Psychological Capital on Their Deviant Innovation Behavior.

Wenhai Xu,Shouzheng Zhao

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01606

Abstract

This study explores the influence of psychological capital on the deviant innovation behavior, with the purpose of realizing the application and development of positive psychology in the field of innovation and creation. First, the data was obtained based on the questionnaire, and the Likert scale was adopted to measure the variables effectively, in which 1 point means “never,” 2 points mean “rarely,” and 5 points mean “always.” Second, the SPSS 26.0 statistical analysis software was adopted, and a statistical analysis was made on the correlation among deviant innovation, psychological capital, work values, and work remodeling. Third, the relationship between psychological capital and deviant innovation behavior was explored using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The results showed that the reliability of each scale is good, Cronbach’s α coefficients are all higher than 0.8, and the fitting effect of the four-factor model is the best, proving that the highest differentiation validity can be achieved using the proposed method. Furthermore, there are significant correlations among entrepreneur’s psychological capital, entrepreneur’s work values, and entrepreneurship work remodeling and deviant innovation behavior, among which the psychological capital and work values are the most correlated with deviant innovation. With the psychological capital of entrepreneurs as the adjustment variable and the interaction added, the explanation rate of the level equation is increased from 17 to 24.2%. Therefore, the psychological capital of entrepreneurs plays a very big role in regulating work values and deviant innovation behavior. In the current environment of innovation and entrepreneurship development, it is necessary for entrepreneurs to give full reign to the regulatory role of their own psychological capital, so as to promote the development of self-active deviant innovation activities and encourage employees to actively innovate and create.

Highlights

Under the current social and economic development, the mass entrepreneurship and innovation program has been in full swing in China
Based on the questionnaire survey and statistical analysis, this study introduced two elements that were closely related to psychological capital – work values and work remodeling – so as to examine the role of psychological capital of entrepreneurs in their deviant innovation behavior
The purpose of this study is to provide some reference for the relationship between psychological capital and deviant innovation behavior, based on positive psychology

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Introduction

Under the current social and economic development, the mass entrepreneurship and innovation program has been in full swing in China. As the entrepreneurship field develops, the development of the innovation field and the change in Influence of Entrepreneurs’ Psychological Capital management modes of enterprises, face severe challenges. The innovation behavior of employees is the key to improving the innovation capacity of enterprises (Sorescu, 2017). Under the influence of such an environment, enterprises have made great changes in their attitude toward employees’ innovative behavior, which to a certain extent promotes the development of employees’ innovative behavior (Tandon et al, 2017; Vedin et al, 2017). Employees with an optimistic attitude tend to have a higher sense of self-efficacy, so they have a more positive work value orientation, which affects their deviant behavior psychologically (Tharek et al, 2018). There are very few studies on introducing psychological capital into deviant innovation behavior

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