Do Only the Most Creative Entrepreneurial Artists Succeed? The Linear and Nonlinear Relationship Between Creative Personality and Entrepreneurial Performance

The development of the cultural and creative industry has led to an upsurge in entrepreneurial artists, but how a creative personality will contribute to entrepreneurial artists' success is still unclear. In this present study, we explore the relationship between creative personality and entrepreneurial success, namely economic reward and subjective well-being, among Chinese art entrepreneurs. Furthermore, we tested the mediating role of economic reward on creative personality and subjective well-being. A total of 200 Chinese entrepreneurial artists completed questionnaires assessing their creative personality, economic reward, life satisfaction, and positive and negative emotions. The results showed curvilinear relationships between creative personality and economic reward, positive emotion, and life satisfaction. Furthermore, economic reward mediated the impact of creative personality on subjective well-being. The results have strong theoretical implications for understanding the role of creative personality in entrepreneurial success, as well as the practical implications of improving competence for Chinese entrepreneurial artists in the creative industry to achieve success

Research Progress of Acrylonitrile-butadiene Rubber Nanocomposites Filled with Graphene

This article summarizes the preparation and functionalization of graphene, and introduces the fabrication methods of graphene/NBR nanocomposites including emulsion blending, solution blending, and mechanical blending. The mechanical properties, cure characteristics, fatigue properties, electrical conductivity, thermal behavior, tribological properties along with gas barrier properties are reviewed. With the further study of the molecular interaction between graphene and NBR, the structure and properties graphene/NBR are gradually perceived. Finally, it is pointed out that the development of graphene/NBR nanocomposites in the fields of medium corrosion resistance, radiation resistance, damping and flame retardancy has more room to be expanded

Openness and Entrepreneurial Performance During COVID-19 Pandemic: Strategic Decision Comprehensiveness as an Inconsistent Mediator

The COVID-19 pandemic severely hit small and micro-businesses. In the face of the impact of the pandemic, how to help entrepreneurs, especially small- and micro-businesses that are more sensitive to the impact of the pandemic, make decisions to reduce losses has become an issue worth paying attention to. From the perspective of personality approach, this article studied openness, which is the strongest predictor of entrepreneurial performance among the big five personality traits, and explored the impact of entrepreneurs&#39; openness on entrepreneurial performance during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the inconsistent mediating role of strategic decision comprehensiveness on entrepreneurial performance. An online questionnaire survey was conducted among 238 entrepreneurs of small- and micro-businesses when China was recovering from the pandemic and starting to resume work and production (February 18 - February 26, 2020). Entrepreneurial performance during the COVID-19 pandemic was measured by comparing the business conditions before and after the pandemic. The results showed that entrepreneurs&#39; openness positively impacted strategic decision comprehensiveness and entrepreneurial performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the two competing hypotheses proposed by summarizing previous research, the results supported that strategic decision comprehensiveness negatively affected entrepreneurial performance. It indicated that entrepreneurs who tend to collect and analyze information extensively and then make decisions during the pandemic could not seize opportunities and improve their entrepreneurial performance. The results further supported that strategic decision comprehensiveness was an inconsistent mediator between openness and entrepreneurial performance, showing that entrepreneurs with low openness can also reduce the loss of entrepreneurial performance during the pandemic by making incomplete but rapid strategic decisions. This study found that the openness of entrepreneurs had a positive impact on strategic decision comprehensiveness for the first time and provided more empirical evidence for the negative effect of strategic decision comprehensiveness on entrepreneurial performance in the context of information uncertainty and unanalyzable situations. The inconsistent mediating effect of strategic decision comprehensiveness revealed in this study also has practical significance for helping entrepreneurs make correct decisions to reduce the losses caused by the pandemic.</p

Entrepreneur-Region Fit and Entrepreneurial Success in China: The Effect of "Confucian" Personality

The personality of entrepreneurs is associated with their entrepreneurial success, and the regional personality plays a crucial role in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Recently, scholars have called for an indigenous personality perspective and combining the personality of entrepreneurs with the regional personality. The current study aimed to investigate the indigenous Confucian personality (e.g., interpersonal relatedness [IR]) and taking an entrepreneur-regional personality fit perspective, allowing testing how entrepreneurs interact with the local ecosystem. Using the personality data of entrepreneurs (N = 1,386) from a representative sample across 42 major cities in China, we found that (1) city-level IR is curvilinearly correlated with the annual income of entrepreneurs, with moderate IR associates with the highest income; and (2) the entrepreneur-regional fit analysis further revealed substantial interplay between an entrepreneur and the city. Specifically, entrepreneurs who have moderate IR and run their business in the city also with moderate IR are most likely to have the highest income. This study highlights the usefulness of investigating indigenous personality and the fit perspective in entrepreneurship research. &nbsp;</p

Income and Subjective Well-being: Test of a Multilevel Moderated Mediation Model

Is the Easterlin paradox lost, or has it been regained? Scholars have started to debate this topic in recent years. This paper explores the association between income and happiness in cities with different levels of economic development, which provides new evidence for the Easterlin paradox. 11,791 participants from 32 cities reported their absolute income (real income), relative income (subjective evaluation of their family&#39;s economic status), and subjective well-being (SWB). We also obtained the total gross domestic product (GDP) of each city from the Urban Statistical Yearbook as an indicator of regional economic development level. We applied the MLmed macro in SPSS to test the multilevel moderated mediation model. The results show that individual absolute income has significant predictive effects on relative income and SWB, and that relative income play a mediating role on the association between absolute income and SWB. Moreover, GDP moderates the association between absolute income and SWB, and the association between absolute income and SWB is stronger in cities with higher GDP. In addition, GDP moderates the relationship between absolute income and relative income, and the relationship between absolute income and relative income is stronger in cities with lower GDP. Furthermore, GDP moderates the mediating effect between absolute income and SWB not only at the individual level but also at the city level. The insights gained in this study may facilitate a more detailed understanding of the relation between income and SWB, and provide advice for individuals and governments.</p

Three-Wave Longitudinal Survey on the Relationship between Neuroticism and Depressive Symptoms of First-Year College Students: Addictive Use of Social Media as a Moderated Mediator

First-year college students' adaptation problems and related mental health have attracted researchers' attention. The current research focuses on the depressive symptoms of first-year college students and aims to explore the relationship between the neuroticism trait and depressive symptoms, the mediating effect of addictive use of social media, and the moderating effect of psychological resilience. Three-wave longitudinal data from 1128 first-year students at a university in Fujian Province, China, were collected within three months of their enrollment. PROCESS macro for SPSS with bootstrapping was used to test the model. Results showed that the prevalence of moderate to severe severity of depressive symptoms in first-year students was 10.28% (T1) and 11.17% (T3). Addictive use of social media (T2) plays a moderated mediator role in the relationship between neuroticism (T1) and depressive symptoms (T3) of first-year students. Specifically, a low neuroticism individual does not necessarily have a less addictive use of social media. Psychological resilience (T1) moderated the above mediation. Implications for research and practice are discussed

Short Forms of the Cross-Cultural (Chinese) Personality Assessment Inventory: Reliability, Validity, and Measurement Invariance Across Gender

Filling out long questionnaires can be frustrating, unpleasant, and discouraging for respondents to continue. This is why shorter forms of long instruments are preferred, especially when they have comparable reliability and validity. In present study, two short forms of the Cross-cultural (Chinese) Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI-2) were developed and validated. The items of the short forms were all selected from the 28 personality scales of the CPAI-2 based on the norm sample. Based on some priori criteria, we obtained the appropriate items and constructed the 56-item Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI) and the 28-item CPAI. Then, we examined the factor structure of both short forms with Exploratory SEM (ESEM) and replicated the four-factor structure of the original CPAI-2, reflecting the four personality domains of Chinese people, namely, Social Potency, Dependability, Accommodation, and Interpersonal Relatedness. Further analyses with ESEM models demonstrate full measurement invariance across gender for both short forms. The results show that females score lower than males on Social Potency. In addition, these four factors of both short forms have adequate internal consistency, and the correlation patterns of the four factors, the big five personality traits, and several health-related variables are extremely similar across the two short forms, reflecting adequate and comparable criterion validity, convergent validity, and discriminant validity. Overall, the short versions of CPAI-2 are psychometrically acceptable and have practically implications for measuring Chinese personality and cross-cultural research

Marital Satisfaction, Family Functioning, and Children's Mental Health-The Effect of Parental Co-Viewing

Using 318 household data concerning children during middle childhood (8-13), we examined the association among each parent's marital satisfaction, the child's perceived family functioning, and the child's anxiety and depression. Second, we investigated whether the other parent could buffer or facilitate this chain effect by co-viewing programs via various devices with their child so as to improve the child's perceived family functioning. Results verified the mediation effect that maternal marital satisfaction was positively associated with the child's perceived family functioning, which, in turn, decreased the child's depression. In addition, the results indicated that increased paternal co-viewing enhanced the positive association between maternal marital satisfaction and the child's perceived family functioning and then decreased the child's depression. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed within the framework of family systems theory, parental media interventions, and the different roles of the father and mother in family functionality