We develop and validate a measure of entrepreneurship addiction. Inspired by earlier research on entrepreneurship addiction, we develop multi-item scales to measure six underlying criteria (i.e., obsessive thoughts, withdrawal/engagement, self-worth, tolerance, neglect, and negative outcomes). Via three studies, we refine the measure and investigate its dimensional structure. We also provide estimates of prevalence and identify some antecedents of entrepreneurship addiction. The validated measure helps illuminate entrepreneurship addiction’s role in some “dark side” implications of entrepreneurship.

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衡量创业成瘾

我们开发并验证了一种衡量企业家成瘾的方法。受早期企业家成瘾研究的启发，我们开发了多项目量表来衡量六个基本标准（即，沉迷性思维，退缩/参与，自我价值，宽容，忽视和负面结果）。通过三项研究，我们改进了度量并研究了其维度结构。我们还提供了患病率的估计值，并确定了企业家成瘾的一些前因。经过验证的措施有助于阐明企业家成瘾在企业家精神的某些“阴暗面”含义中的作用。