A Research On Entrepreneurial Stress, Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy And Entrepreneurial Guidance In Small-and-medium-sized Enterprises

In 21st century, we have entered into a new era of constant innovation, creation and entrepreneurship. With the prosperity of entrepreneurship, scholars have achieved prolific fruits on entrepreneurial behavior, entrepreneurial environment, entrepreneurial performance and entrepreneurial education. Recently, due to the exploration of psychology, more scholars are now focusing on the entrepreneurial cognition, which mainly discusses the effects of personal cognition on entrepreneurship.This article, basing on the research of stress, self-efficacy and entrepreneurship, constructed a relational model of entrepreneurial stress, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial guidance. We had made a specific questionnaire investigation of 207 entrepreneurs or managers who had been involved in the entrepreneurship. The stress inventory was localized somewhere, considering the domestic constitutions and culture. Various statistical means were used in the phase of positive analysis, including feature analysis, item analysis, reliability analysis, validation analysis, correlation analysis and path analysis. According to the statistical analysis, all dimensions of all variances had satisfied the need of reliability and validation. Regression analysis also proved that there is a significant correlation among entrepreneurial stress, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial guidance. At last, the author tested whether there is a mediation process between entrepreneurial stress and entrepreneurial guidance. The result shows that entrepreneurial self-efficacy is a medium which make entrepreneurial stress affected entrepreneurial guidance indirectly. The author also made an explanation on those hypothesizes that were not tested in this article.The research results were expected to provide deep understanding, forecasting and control of entrepreneurial actions. This article also provides theoretical and practical guiding for the education, training, and exploitation of entrepreneurs.