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‘ADHD’ Like Behaviors Associated with Entrepreneurial Activities
A new study examines how sleep issues and ADHD-like tendencies may together promote the inclination to venture out and start something new professionally.
www.madinamerica.com/2020/08/adhd-behaviors-associated-entrepreneurial-activities/
In a series of studies, researchers find support for a connection between ADHD-like tendencies and a propensity for entrepreneurial activity. Further, the study links decreased sleep quality to increased behaviors associated with ADHD.
The studies are summarized in a recently released paper published in the journal Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Although ADHD-like tendencies are often regarded in research as ‘abnormal,’ and understood in relation to impairment or distress among those impacted, the researchers, Brian Gunia, J. Jeffrey Gish, and Mona Mensmann, make a compelling case that these tendencies may serve adaptive functions:
“Although the combination of hyperactivity, impulsivity, and attentional variation underlying clinical ADHD could clearly hamper many workplace outcomes, entrepreneurship research has suggested that ADHD can also heighten entrepreneurial intentions. Specifically, clinical ADHD may ‘push’ people away from standard jobs and ‘pull’ them toward a more flexible entrepreneurial lifestyle.”
The Weary Founder: Sleep Problems, ADHD-Like Tendencies, and Entrepreneurial Intentions
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1042258720940502
Abstract
Scholars have persuasively documented the positive influence of ADHD-like tendencies (the impermanent experience of ADHD-like symptoms) on entrepreneurial intentions. Yet, we know little about the causes of ADHD-like tendencies, and thus about factors that could heighten entrepreneurial intentions through such tendencies. Drawing from the biopsychosocial model, sleep physiology literature, and entrepreneurship literature, we propose that the biological experience of sleep problems may heighten the psychological experience of ADHD-like tendencies, which could nudge people toward the socially-embedded intention to venture. Four studies and a mini meta-analysis provide support, extending several literatures and suggesting that sleep problems could contribute to business founding.
A new study examines how sleep issues and ADHD-like tendencies may together promote the inclination to venture out and start something new professionally.
www.madinamerica.com/2020/08/adhd-behaviors-associated-entrepreneurial-activities/
In a series of studies, researchers find support for a connection between ADHD-like tendencies and a propensity for entrepreneurial activity. Further, the study links decreased sleep quality to increased behaviors associated with ADHD.
The studies are summarized in a recently released paper published in the journal Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Although ADHD-like tendencies are often regarded in research as ‘abnormal,’ and understood in relation to impairment or distress among those impacted, the researchers, Brian Gunia, J. Jeffrey Gish, and Mona Mensmann, make a compelling case that these tendencies may serve adaptive functions:
“Although the combination of hyperactivity, impulsivity, and attentional variation underlying clinical ADHD could clearly hamper many workplace outcomes, entrepreneurship research has suggested that ADHD can also heighten entrepreneurial intentions. Specifically, clinical ADHD may ‘push’ people away from standard jobs and ‘pull’ them toward a more flexible entrepreneurial lifestyle.”
The Weary Founder: Sleep Problems, ADHD-Like Tendencies, and Entrepreneurial Intentions
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1042258720940502
Abstract
Scholars have persuasively documented the positive influence of ADHD-like tendencies (the impermanent experience of ADHD-like symptoms) on entrepreneurial intentions. Yet, we know little about the causes of ADHD-like tendencies, and thus about factors that could heighten entrepreneurial intentions through such tendencies. Drawing from the biopsychosocial model, sleep physiology literature, and entrepreneurship literature, we propose that the biological experience of sleep problems may heighten the psychological experience of ADHD-like tendencies, which could nudge people toward the socially-embedded intention to venture. Four studies and a mini meta-analysis provide support, extending several literatures and suggesting that sleep problems could contribute to business founding.