The purpose of this study is to show how autonomy, competence and meaningful work serve as mechanisms through which opportunity entrepreneurship leads to higher levels of wellbeing, and how this relationship may be altered by the country’s level of individualism. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data for 37 countries and 14,514 individuals that are active in early stage entrepreneurship are used to investigate the relationship between opportunity entrepreneurship and wellbeing. To account for the nested nature of our data, we use a multilevel model to assess how factors of autonomy and competence as components of self-determination and meaningful work as a component of decent work mediate the opportunity entrepreneurship and wellbeing relationship. We also test the moderating effects of individualism cultural dimension at the country level on the relationship between opportunity entrepreneurship and wellbeing.

本研究的目的是展示自主性、能力和有意义的工作如何成为机会创业导致更高水平的幸福的机制，以及这种关系如何被国家的个人主义水平改变。Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 数据来自 37 个国家和 14,514 名活跃于早期创业的个人，用于调查机会创业与福祉之间的关系。为了解释我们数据的嵌套性质，我们使用多层次模型来评估作为自决组成部分的自主性和能力因素以及作为体面工作组成部分的有意义的工作如何调节机会创业和福祉关系。