Value Of Autonomy Research Articles

The psychology of pandemic policy support: unraveling the complex interplay of personal values and value congruence across 20 European countries

ObjectivesWe explored the roles of personal values and value congruence—the alignment between individual and national values—in predicting public support for pandemic restrictions across 20 European countries. Study designCross-sectional study. MethodsWe analyzed multinational European survey data (N = 34,356) using Schwartz's values theory and person-environment fit theory. Multilevel polynomial regression was employed to assess the linear and curvilinear effects of personal values on policy support. Multilevel Euclidean similarity analysis and response surface analysis were conducted to evaluate the impact of value congruence and delineate nuanced congruence patterns. ResultsFindings revealed that extreme levels of security, conformity, stimulation, hedonism, and achievement values were associated with decreased policy support. Value congruence with security, conformity, and benevolence increased support, while congruence with stimulation, hedonism, and achievement reduced it. High congruence between personal and national social focus values significantly boosted policy support. Extreme mismatches in self-direction values amplified support. Societal power exceeding personal power also increased support. Matched levels of hedonism motivated greater support, while stimulation and achievement value (in)congruence showed little impact. ConclusionsWe highlight the differential effects of personal values and value congruence on public attitudes toward pandemic restrictions. The findings underscore the importance of considering the interplay between individual and societal values when designing and implementing effective pandemic response strategies.

Value and appraisal: human resource management practices and voice behaviors

PurposeEmployee voice is considered an important driver of organizational success. Management practices in the form of high-performance work practices (HPWPs) are expected to influence promotive and prohibitive voices. In addition, employee appraisal of HPWPs as a challenge or hindrance stressor is supposed to mediate the relationships. Finally, the self-direction value moderates the indirect effects of HPWPs on voice behaviors through employee appraisal.Design/methodology/approachA quantitative research approach was adopted with data collected from 315 subordinate supervisor dyads from 12 business organizations in Vietnam. This research uses partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to test the hypotheses.FindingsResults indicate that HPWPs are significantly associated with both types of employee voice behaviors. Challenge appraisal partially mediates the impact of HPWPs on promotive voice, while hindrance appraisal acts as a partial mediation in the HPWPs-prohibitive voice linkage. Self-direction value moderates the link between HPWPs and prohibitive voice.Research limitations/implicationsResults show that HPWPs may have both productive and harmful effects on employees. Depending on how the employees appraise HPWPs, they develop different coping strategies by raising their voices. HPWP-implementing organizations should pay attention to the employees’ values in this process.Originality/valueThis study investigates the relationship between HPWPs and employee voice based on the transactional theory of stress and coping. The mediating role of employee appraisal represents a new contribution. Finally, the role of self-direction value in the voice literature has not been widely evaluated in previous research.

“Accept it or not?”: young people’s struggles with parental financing for property-purchase in Hong Kong

When skyrocketing house prices worsen housing affordability, parental financial support is suggested to be more important and prevalent in young people’s housing transition. However, little is known about young people’s perceptions and responses to it, particularly when they struggle among different sets of conflicting norms – the values of self-reliance, deep-seated home ownership preference, and marriage and gender expectations. Based on in-depth interviews with 50 highly educated young people aged 25–34 in Hong Kong, this study found that many young people were torn between the housing ideal – achieving home ownership by themselves – and economic realities. They did not necessarily welcome their parents’ home financing while many struggled to establish their financial responsibility even when they agreed to accept parents’ money. Some explicitly rejected parents’ assistance due to different concerns, such as preserving decision-making power. Gender and marriage norms also shape parents-of-daughters’ financing and young men’s acceptance. Young people’s attempts to carefully delineate financing responsibility in own housing projects (e.g. an outright rejection of parents’ money) may impede parents’ accumulating reciprocal support resources and shape intergenerational relationships in the long term.

Personal value preferences, multifaceted job satisfaction and burnout in Israeli high-tech.

This study investigates connections between personal value preferences, satisfaction with different facets of the job and burnout among high-tech workers. The study's sample included 175 individuals (43% females) working in the high-tech industry in Israel. A high level of satisfaction with work content was associated with low burnout and high professional accomplishment, and satisfaction with coworkers was associated with low burnout. Satisfaction with supervisor, salary and promotion opportunities did not affect high-tech workers' burnout and professional accomplishment. A high preference for achievement values was associated with high professional accomplishment. A high preference for power values was associated with low satisfaction with all job facets. In addition, power values increased burnout indirectly by reducing satisfaction with work content and coworkers. Power values also decreased personal accomplishment indirectly by reducing satisfaction with work content. A high preference for self-direction values was associated with high satisfaction with salary and promotion opportunities. Finally, high preferences for achievement and universalism values were associated with high satisfaction with promotion opportunities. The theoretical and practical implications of the obtained results are discussed.

Impact of personal values on learning approaches and academic achievements in UK higher education

In the post-Covid era of higher education, blended teaching has become the standard method of instruction. This approach incorporates various modes of delivery, and it is important for students to engage in the diverse form of learning. Considering students’ preferences for learning approaches, especially independent learning, is crucial in the development of blended teaching methods. One of the key factors affecting students’ preferences is personal values, which can influence student’s adoption of learning approaches. This, in turn, affects their engagement in the learning community and their academic performance (Gamage, Dehideniya and Ekanayake, 2021). Personal values vary culturally, and this is particularly relevant when developing blended teaching strategies for cohorts of mixed nationalities. This issue is especially pronounced in the departments and schools across the UK universities, which often have a diverse student body with mixed cultural backgrounds. Our research aims to examine the role of personal values (specifically self-direction values and conformity values) in students’ adoption of independent learning and the impact of these values on their academic achievement in blended teaching context. Our research was conducted in 2022 through an internship scheme sponsored by WMG. We conducted a Qualtrics survey with the convenient sample of 162 among which 146 from China (including Hong Kong S.A.R.). The results indicated that self-direction values were closely correlated with both independent learning and academic achievement while no significant correlation was found between conformity values and independent learning or between conformity values and academic performance were found. The research results hold considerable importance for educators in design self-directed study for students from varied cultural backgrounds in higher education settings.

What frailty can tell us about ageing well: towards an alternative paradigm to 'successful ageing'.

This paper considers the concept of successful ageing by means of a dialogue with the concept of frailty. This dialogue reveals the limits and blindspots of both concepts as well as their apparent dichotomy and the importance of understanding both the objective and subjective experience of ageing. In particular, the dialogue highlights that both frailty and successful ageing are social constructs that derive their meaning from what society values (autonomy, youthful capacities). They cannot by themselves account for the fact that flourishing and frailty are often found together whilst conversely successful ageing may not bring satisfaction. I argue that the arts and humanities supply us with conceptual and methodological tools with which to revisit what it is to age well offering a holistic approach that combines sensitivity both to older people's lived experience and to the underpinning material conditions and embodied realities. For this purpose, and building on previous scholarship in cultural gerontology, I suggest the unique value of concepts and frameworks associated by Simone de Beauvoir. When brought into alignment with the tenets of cultural and narrative gerontology, these concepts facilitate a rich understanding of the nuances and paradoxes of flourishing in deep old age which can also aid in restorying both old age and the life course more generally. I illustrate this through two examples: a feminist self-help guide to ageing, which accepts both limitations and growth and a film that imagines the possibilities of authentic ageing even despite a context of poverty, patriarchy and Alzheimer's Disease.

Study Regarding the Dimensions of Personal Autonomy Among Students Aged 13-14 Years Old

Personal autonomy is crucial in developing the personality of teenagers. The COVID-19 pandemic constrained adolescents' wishes and choices by imposing isolation at home. This constraint diminished individual autonomy regarding the purpose of choices, the direction of actions and the freedom to carry out particular tasks. The study aims to assess this personality trait by applying the personal autonomy questionnaire with four dimensions: cognitive autonomy, behavioural autonomy, value autonomy and emotional autonomy. The subjects of this research were 62 seventh-grade students with an average age of 13.5±0.29 years old. The results showed that the pandemic period impaired the students' personal autonomy, and some subjects avoided expressing their feelings and lacked confidence in their strengths.

The Role of Leadership Styles in Fostering Organizational Commitment Among Nurses

This study aims to explicitly examine the relationship between leadership styles and nurse organizational commitment, providing specific correlations and regression results to enhance readers’ understanding of the findings. Nurses’ well-being is significantly influenced by the leadership styles they observe, and effective healthcare leadership is crucial for improving healthcare systems’ efficacy. The study population consists of private hospital nurses from Vellore City, Tamil Nadu, India. Questionnaires were disseminated using Google Forms, resulting in 308 responses, of which 283 ( N = 283) were deemed usable. Nurses self-rated their perceptions of their various managers’ leadership styles using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire 5x-short, along with the Three-Component Model (TCM) Employee Commitment Survey and a demographic questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression were examined using SPSS 26.0. The study’s regression analysis found significant links between leadership styles and various types of commitment among nurses. Specifically, the results show that transformational (TRF) and laissez-faire (LF) leadership styles positively impacted affective commitment. TRF had a stronger influence (TRF: β = .938, p < .001; LF: β = .580, p < .001). The findings also indicate that TRF and LF styles positively influenced normative commitment (TRF: β = .803, p < .001; LF: β = .392, p < .001), while transactional (TRA) leadership had a negative effect on normative commitment (TRA: β = −.308, p = .007). These results provide valuable insights for healthcare organizations looking to increase commitment among their nursing staff by fostering specific leadership styles. This study contributes to nursing and organizational behavior by filling a gap in the current knowledge on the relationship between leadership styles and organizational commitment among nurses. Given the specific obstacles and stresses nurses face in their jobs, understanding how different leadership styles affect their commitment can assist healthcare organizations in better supporting their nursing staff. Healthcare organizations can apply these results by implementing targeted leadership development programs to identify and cultivate leaders with transformational and laissez-faire traits. Additionally, organizations can create a work environment that values autonomy and decision-making, fostering commitment among nurses. Future research could explore the long-term effects of implementing leadership development programs based on the identified effective leadership styles. Additionally, examining the broader implications of these findings for the field of nursing and healthcare management would be valuable for advancing the understanding of organizational commitment among nurses.

The Wa Concept and its Effects on Deaf Education in Japan

Japanese society has been noted for the emphasis it places on social harmony. As with other cultural values, ideas of harmony may have played a part in written and unwritten rules of the community. As a marginalized group whose existence itself is seen to not be in accordance with the norm, disabled people might particularly be affected by such normative values. This research discusses how values within the wa concept are interwoven in the educational practice for deaf children, as well as the effects it has on them. Values of self-reliance and ‘sameness’ pushes deaf children into assimilation, and to become independent society members that can adapt to the comfort of their surroundings. The deaf education system that has been permeated by the wa concept has resulted in numerous issues, mainly in regards to the childrens’ linguistic skills, as well as social and emotional development. This research shows that while the wa concept is supposed to create societal harmony, normative values created through the lens of the wider and typical society could create a paradoxical situation when applied to marginalized groups such as deaf people.

The Power of Religious Faith as a Predictor of Autonomy, Community, and Divinity Ethical Values

This article investigates the influence of religious faith on ethical values (autonomy, community, and divinity), and specifically considers the predictive role in shaping individuals' orientations toward autonomy, community, and divinity. Study examines the ways in which adherence to religious beliefs molds ethical perspectives. The research employs a multidimensional framework to assess the correlation between religious faith and values associated with personal autonomy, communal responsibility, and the sacred. Understanding the power of religious faith as a predictor of ethical values has implications for fostering a deeper comprehension of diverse moral frameworks and facilitating interfaith dialogue. The article underscores the importance of recognizing and respecting the role of religious beliefs in shaping ethical convictions, thereby contributing to a more inclusive and informed discourse on morality in a pluralistic society.

Would you like to be a general practitioner? Baseline findings of a longitudinal survey among Danish medical trainees

BackgroundRecruiting and securing primary care physician workforce has been the center of international attention for decades. In Denmark, the number of general practitioners has decreased by 8.5% since 2013. However, a rising population age and increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and multimorbidity place an even greater future need for general practitioners in Denmark. The choice of general practice as specialty has been associated with a range of both intrinsic and extrinsic factors, however, few studies have examined the recruitment potential that lies within medical trainees’ who are undecided about general practice specialization. The aim of this study was, therefore, to explore how medical trainees who are undecided about general practice specialization (GP-positive/undecided) differ from medical trainees who are either committed (GP-committed) or not committed to a general practice career (GP-non-committed) regarding factors related to future work life.MethodsThe present study concerns baseline findings from a longitudinal survey study. An online questionnaire was e-mailed to a national cohort of medical trainees during their transition from under- to postgraduate education. The associations between orientations towards general practice specialization and work-related factors and potential influencing factors, respectively, were analyzed using uni- and multivariable modified Poisson regression models.ResultsOf 1,188 invited participants, 461 filled out key study variables concerning specialty preferences and rejections, corresponding to a response rate of 38.8%. We found significant positive associations between GP-positive/undecided orientation and valuing a good work/life balance and the opportunity to organize own working hours when compared to GP-non-committed respondents. Compared to the GP-committed orientations, the GP-positive/undecided orientation was associated with a positive attitude towards technology, working shift hours, and an openness towards several career paths. Across all orientations, undergraduate exposure to the specialties was found to be highly influential on the specialty preferences.ConclusionGP-positive/undecided medical trainees value autonomy over their working hours more than the GP-non-committed, but less than the GP-committed. However, the GP-positive/undecided respondents present more openness to different career opportunities and the use of technology in daily work. We suggest using this knowledge in the planning of recruitment strategies aiming to increase interest in general practice specialization.

Differentiating social environments of high-risk professionals and specialised nurses: a qualitative empirical study on social embeddedness.

Objective: High-risk professionals and specialised nurses in hospitals are frequently exposed to potentially traumatic events. Psychotrauma researchers have extensively studied personal risk factors of traumatisation among high-risk professionals, but it is hard to understand psychological functioning when professionals are decontextualised from their social environment. Generally, it has been well documented that to reduce the risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or other mental health problems related to traumatisation, it is essential to be embedded in a supportive social environment. However, study results among and within these occupational groups show great variety and even inconsistencies as to what is a supportive social environment.Method: This ethnographical research, including participant observation, in-depth interviews, and document analysis, explored the social environment of firefighters, police officers, ambulance paramedics, specialised nurses, and military personnel and aims to explore their social connections and embeddedness. We performed a thematic content analysis of data to identify themes related to social or emotional support, social relationships, and stress or traumatisation.Results: An analysis of the observational field notes, which covered 332 h of participant observation and 71 evenly distributed formal in-depth interviews, identified four themes related to social connections and embeddedness: Family, Hierarchical relations versus autonomy, Group versus individual, and Conditional family 'love'. Results revealed that the military, police, and professional firefighters have family-like hierarchical connections and highly value group unity. Paramedics and most specialised nurses, however, tend to value individuality and autonomy in their work relationships.Conclusion: This research shows noticeable differences in the social environments and social connections of these professionals, which implicates that prevention and mental health treatment might also have to be differentiated among occupational groups.

Using a bespoke, triad narrative analysis approach with Gen Z students: telling the story of their values

ABSTRACT This paper presents an innovative narrative data analysis approach, used in a narrative research project exploring student values. The work of three different authors was drawn upon to create a novel, rigorous and synergistic analysis tool. A novel approach to data analysis, using the stories told by one Generation Z (Gen Z) student and the personal values elicited, which are drawn from Schwartz’s theory of universals in basic human values is presented. This leads to a restorying of the data, from which the reader finds meaning. The participant was interviewed at the beginning of their first year as undergraduate and is presented as an example from the larger study of seven Gen Z students. How this approach is effective is examined, demonstrating that combining theory and the narrative analysis approach enabled the values of self-direction, security, benevolence and power to be exposed within the resulting restorying. This is a new and innovative approach to narrative analysis that can be applied in a wide range of contexts internationally and utilised in future studies.

Western churches and politics: frontiers of ideologic divergence

The article deals with conflict lines in the interaction of religious institutions and political actors in Europe. Church policy in the West is seen as a practical implementation of the neo-secular approach, which implies a reduction in the role of religious institutions and church elites while remaining religiosity and quasi-religiousness. It is shown that the contradictions of state-confessional relations in Western countries pose both a threat to the value autonomy of religious organizations and an increasing trend towards the instrumentalization of religion in foreign policy. It is shown that attempts of value pressure on traditional church institutions contribute to the formation of a hostile environment that contributes to the strengthening of intra-church contradictions. As a result, religious organizations find themselves in a situation of multiplying ideological divisions and artificially pushed internal competition. The risks of reducing the institutional stability of traditional churches based on the unity of the doctrine and striving for internal unity are increasing. In this regard, the article offers an analysis of possible internal and external reactions of church institutions to the increasing pressure. As possible scenarios, the strengthening of the processes of ideological and regional autonomy and the increase in increasingly open conflicts with secular authorities in a number of countries on topical issues of the political agenda are considered. Under any of the scenarios, it is predicted that the fault line between European countries will strengthen on issues with a strong religious connotation, which may lead to an increase in social tension and deepening of divisions among the electorate in the Western states.

The influence of mental hygiene on communication styles in couples

A couple represents a bond formed between two people that develop and evolve together, which have the common objective of forming a family. We ask ourselves which are the factors which influence the communication style of the partners in the relationship. This work has the general objective of determining possible correlations between some variables which define the mental hygiene of the individual and the communication styles in the couple. In this regard 78 people, male and female, within the ages of 19 and 66 years old have been tested. I provided this objective with special importance as it involves all directions of research. Likewise, I consider that this research highlights the importance of communication in a couple at any age. The hypotheses of the research consider the different correlations between nonassertive, aggressive, manipulating and assertive communication styles and the psychologic factors such as the types of personal autonomy: cognitive, behavioral, emotional and value. Unhappiness in the couple and marital conflict have also been targeted. I also followed a comparison related to the dominance of a communication style between sexes. Following the correlations and the comparison made, I found the following aspects: a high level of cognitive autonomy leads to an assertive communication style in a couple, a low level of value autonomy determines unhappiness in a couple, a low level of behavioral autonomy leads to a nonassertive communication style in a couple, a high level of marital conflict does not determine a manipulative communication style, men communicate more aggressively in a couple compared to women, and a low level of conscientiousness determines a nonassertive style in couples.

Intention to Purchase Organic Food Among Indian Consumers: Application of Theory of Planned Behaviour

The primary aim of this research is to investigate the consumer’s intention to purchase organic food (OF) in India, using the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). This study used the values of security, conformity, and self-direction in addition to the TPB and tested its impact on the attitude and intention to purchase OF. Data were gathered from 400 OF customers approached using the mall intercept method. To evaluate the relationships between the key determinants, data were analysed using structural equation modelling. The research revealed that attitude, subjective norms (SN), and perceived behaviour control (PBC) have a positive and significant impact on the intention to purchase OF. Security, self-direction, and conformity have a significant impact on attitude. In addition, security has a significant impact on SN and PBC. PBC is found to have an impact on SN. These findings provide several useful implications for marketing managers. Environmental officials and the government might use the study’s findings to expand organic consumption. The study makes a conceptual contribution to the existing literature by establishing theoretical linkages between values and TPB-related constructs.

MZ세대 공무원의 직무만족과 조직몰입 형성 요인에 관한 연구

This study analyzed the differences in in job satisfaction and organizational commitment between public servants from the MZ generation and older generations. The effects of public service motivation, organizational fairness, and job autonomy on job satisfaction and organizational commitment were also analyzed and compared by generation. Recently, the proportion of public servants from the MZ generation has been increasing. They have a high turnover rate, so they need to be managed differently to reduce this rate. MZ-generation public servants more highly value fairness and autonomy and are less aware of their motivation for engaging in public service than older generations. This study analyzed how organizational behavior factors affected generations’ perceptions. The results showed that there were generational differences in job satisfaction, organizational commitment, public service motivation, perceived organizational fairness, and perceived job autonomy. Among MZ-generation public servants, job satisfaction and organizational commitment were positively correlated with perceived organizational fairness. Therefore, human resources should be managed differently by generation.

Social enterprises as effective exit strategies for development NGOs: the case of Bilada in Burkina Faso

ABSTRACT This article discusses the capacity of NGOs to develop and implement relevant and effective exit strategies. In other words, how an NGO can disengage from their interventions in the recipient country in a manner consistent with the goal of ensuring local sustainable development. In this context, we are interested in the exit strategy implemented by the Antenna Foundation in Burkina Faso, a country often seen as the laboratory of NGOs in Africa. This strategy included the handover of a nation-wide water sanitation and hygiene program to a social enterprise - an organisation, purposed to benefit the community that values autonomy and economic risk-taking related to ongoing socio-economic activity. Led by a local entrepreneur, the social enterprise benefited from the favourable market conditions created by the NGOs program activities and active advocacy for government support. Equally, the social enterprise leveraged its roots in the local ecosystem and used its entrepreneurial prerogative to take appropriate risks and adapt the business’ strategy. These factors were critical to ensuring the enterprises viability post-NGOs disengagement and capacity to sustainably promote local development, by supplying water treatment and hygiene solutions in Burkina Faso.

Differences in decisions affected by cognitive biases: examining human values, need for cognition, and numeracy

A better understanding of factors that can affect preferences and choices may contribute to more accurate decision-making. Several studies have investigated the effects of cognitive biases on decision-making and their relationship with cognitive abilities and thinking dispositions. While studies on behaviour, attitude, personality, and health worries have examined their relationship with human values, research on cognitive bias has not investigated its relationship to individual differences in human values. The purpose of this study was to explore individual differences in biased choices, examining the relationships of the human values self-direction, conformity, power, and universalism with the anchoring effect, the framing effect, the certainty effect, and the outcome bias, as well as the mediation of need for cognition and the moderation of numeracy in these relationships. We measured individual differences and within-participant effects with an online questionnaire completed by 409 Brazilian participants, with an age range from 18 to 80 years, 56.7% female, and 43.3% male. The cognitive biases studied consistently influenced choices and preferences. However, the biases showed distinct relationships with the individual differences investigated, indicating the involvement of diverse psychological mechanisms. For example, people who value more self-direction were less affected only by anchoring. Hence, people more susceptible to one bias were not similarly susceptible to another. This can help in research on how to weaken or strengthen cognitive biases and heuristics.

The benefits of having an entrepreneur-mother: Influence of mother's entrepreneurial status on human capital formation among children

Prior research shows that childcare is a unique driver for female entrepreneurship, as entrepreneurship allows women to increase time allocation on child supervision. Yet, whether female entrepreneurship actually promotes childrearing outcomes remains contentious in extant literature. This study focuses on child human capital formation as a key childrearing outcome. Drawing on the occupational inheritance literature, we suggest that, in addition to supervision, entrepreneur-mothers may foster child human capital formation through value transmission—in particular, transmitting self-direction values to children. Using nationally representative data from China, we find that children with entrepreneur-mothers exhibit better human capital formation outcomes—especially when they are younger and female. We further show that both supervision and value transmission are present, with the latter being a more important mechanism. Reconciling conflicting views in the literature, our study has both theoretical and practical implications. Executive summaryPrior female entrepreneurship research suggests that women often choose to be entrepreneurs out of family, particularly childrearing, considerations. Entrepreneurship offers work autonomy and scheduling flexibility, allowing entrepreneur-mothers to better allocate time to childrearing activities. Given that numerous studies document a positive relationship between maternal time allocation and childrearing outcomes, conceivably entrepreneur-mothers should achieve favorable childrearing outcomes. Entrepreneurial research focusing on the business-family interface, however, suggests female entrepreneurs often face unanticipated pressures that limit their ability to care for family members. In addition, some female entrepreneurs may be motivated more by career than by childcare considerations. As such, the relationship between female entrepreneurship and childrearing outcomes remains conceptually and empirically ambiguous. Given the foregoing situation, we examine this relationship both theoretically and empirically, focusing on child human capital formation as a specific and important childrearing outcome.Examining how female entrepreneurship relates to child human capital formation is of both scholarly and practical importance. First, it brings enhanced clarity to our understanding of the family- and child-related consequences of female entrepreneurship, thus affording reconciliation of the ambiguous predictions found in extant theories. Accordingly, we advance research on female entrepreneurship. Exploring the relationship also adds to the family embeddedness perspective in the broader entrepreneurship literature, because child development is a crucial component within the family domain.Second, our research has practical values and policy implications. Prospective female entrepreneurs may, regardless of their pre-entry intentions, be interested in learning how entering entrepreneurship could affect childrearing outcomes. Policymakers worldwide have been actively promoting entrepreneurship in the past few decades, mainly driven by economic and technological considerations. Because such efforts likely increase female participation in entrepreneurial activities, they should be evaluated to account for their family or childrearing consequences in addition to the economic and technological implications. Therefore, we provide evidence which prospective female entrepreneurs and policymakers can use to make informed decisions.To study the effect of female entrepreneurship on child human capital formation, we note that the ambiguous predictions in extant work arise because it predominantly focuses on whether entrepreneur-mothers can allocate more time to childrearing activities, which we call “supervision”. We suggest that this supervision mechanism is not the only way in which the intergenerational impact occurs. Drawing on sociological research in occupational inheritance, we propose that entrepreneur-mothers could foster child human capital formation through transmitting self-direction values, thus promoting children's aspirations and achievements. To test these theoretical hypotheses, we use data from a nationally representative Chinese household survey, which contains separately surveyed parent and child data.Our empirical analyses reveal that children with entrepreneur-mothers outperform those with non-entrepreneur-mothers in both cognitive and noncognitive skills. The effect is stronger for daughters and younger children. Additional analyses verify the presence of both supervision and value transmission mechanisms, with value transmission being more importantly in explaining the entrepreneur-mother effect.Findings in this study deepen our knowledge on whether and how entrepreneur-mothers foster children's human capital formation. They highlight that—in addition to supervision—value transmission is a crucial channel through which entrepreneur-mothers exert an intergenerational impact on children. Our results also indicate that women running larger businesses—likely those with career motives and targets of policies that promote entrepreneurship—see better child human capital formation outcomes despite having potentially limited supervision capacity. Finally, our findings not only shed light on female entrepreneurship in China, a context with growing relevance in the global economy and rate of entrepreneurial activities, but also offer generalizable insights to other economies.