What Keeps Social Entrepreneurs Happy? Exploring Personality, Work Design, External Support, and Social Impact as Resources of Social Entrepreneurs’ Mental Well-Being

Social entrepreneurship (SE) is a new form of dedicated to the creation social value for its beneficiaries, either as for-profit or not-for-profit enterprise. While, over years, research has yielded notable insights regarding, e.g., entrepreneurial nascence and motivations contextual factors (dis-)favoring SE activity, not much known about resources entrepreneurs have maintain their mental well-being (MWB), which essential successfully accomplishing missions. The current study takes psychological view, identifies four resource clusters (personality, work design, external support, provision impact), integrates these empirically explore predictive values job-specific general MWB. Building on representative sample South African from Gauteng Limpopo Provinces, we apply structural equation modeling find positive effects entrepreneur’s MWB in all clusters. Moreover, comparing not-for profit yields differences levels mechanisms resources. Despite limitations, such using cross-sectional data limited generalizability, our offers first framework shedding light entrepreneurs’ MWB-resources that can serve basis future help SE-support programs sustainably promote