Entrepreneurial Passion in Entrepreneurship Education

By interviewing alumni about their experiences of entrepreneurship education and post-graduation careers, this study explored how students can harness entrepreneurial passion in a venture creation programme. The findings emphasise the importance of learning ‘soft skills' in entrepreneurship education, as well as experiencing the ‘necessary evil' of failure and learning from failure in a safe environment. Most importantly, the chapter illustrates the connection between safety, action, emotion, and passion in a VCP. Lastly, this study highlights that harnessing obsessive passion into a sustainable form is an important yet difficult task. Passion changes over time, and VCP students harness this passion to achieve ‘sustainable obsessive and harmonious passion'. This study contributes to the literature on the development of entrepreneurial universities by focusing on the students and their entrepreneurial passion.

The Influence of Spiritual Leadership on Harmonious Passion: A Case Study of the Hotel Industry in China

The hotel manager has the responsibility to stimulate the passion of the staff. The vision, hope/faith, and altruistic love advocated by spiritual leaders can meet the independent psychological needs of employees, thus enhancing their harmonious passion. This study is based on self-determination theory, intrinsic motivation theory and psychological capital theory, and explores the relationship between spiritual leadership and employees’ harmonious passion. This study uses 260 employees of star hotels in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hefei, Huangshan, and other cities in China. Results show that spiritual leadership positively impacts employees’ harmonious passion, and calling plays an mediation role between spiritual leadership and employees’ harmonious passion. The results are helpful to clarify the formation mechanism of employees’ harmonious passion from the perspective of self-determination theory, intrinsic motivation theory and psychological capital theory and show that spiritual leadership can drive employees’ harmonious passion, especially when hotel vision and employee calling are consistent. Furthermore, the altruistic love of spiritual leaders for their followers also plays a key role in employee calling and promoting harmonious passion. Therefore, this study also emphasizes the importance of calling in improving the harmonious passion of employees. The theoretical and management implications that help to enhance the harmonious passion of employees are discussed in detail.

Can human resource flexibility disentangle innovative work behavior among hospitality employees? The roles of harmonious passion and regulatory foci

Purpose The ongoing improvement of hospitality services stems from innovative behavior among employees. This study aims to investigate how and when human resource (HR) flexibility promotes hospitality employees’ innovative work behavior. Design/methodology/approach The data were garnered from 438 employees and 67 managers from 19 hotels operating in Vietnam. Multilevel structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. Findings The positive association was observed between HR flexibility and innovative work behavior. Harmonious passion functioned as a mediator for such a relationship. While promotion focus was found to positively interact with HR flexibility to predict employee harmonious passion, prevention focus demonstrated an attenuating effect on the association between HR flexibility and harmonious passion. Practical implications The findings suggest that hospitality organizations can promote innovative work behavior among employees through building skill and behavioral flexibility, as well as flexibility in HR practices. Hospitality organizations should also realize the role of harmonious passion as a mechanism that can channel HR flexibility into innovative work behavior and the interactive effect of promotion focus and HR flexibility on fostering harmonious passion and, in turn, innovative work behavior. Originality/value This inquiry advances the strand of research on the HR management-innovative behavior linkage by offering insights into how and when HR flexibility promotes innovative work behavior among hotel employees.

Videogame Play and Wellbeing Among a First Episode Psychosis Population

With ongoing interest in the relationship between videogame and mental health alongside recent focus on gaming's role in coping with stressful life events, we sought to explore the relationship between videogame play and wellbeing among people experiencing their first episode of psychosis. Specifically, we aimed to explore the associations between videogame play and wellbeing among consumers of a first episode psychosis (FEP) service and further to compare their motivations for play, need satisfaction, passion for play and wellbeing to a control group. A sample of 88 people experiencing FEP (57 who played videogames and 31 who did not) and a control sample of 46 (all of whom played videogames) completed a survey containing a range of questionnaires related to the variables of interest. Key findings include that among those experiencing FEP, people who played videogames reported better wellbeing outcomes than those who did not. Among participants who played videogames, the FEP sample reported lower levels of need satisfaction through gaming, lower levels of harmonious passion, higher levels of external types of motivation and lower levels of internal types of motivation for play than the control group. Finally, the relationships between passion orientation (both harmonious and obsessive) and psychological distress were stronger in the control group than the FEP sample, suggesting that passion for gaming may be less influential on wellbeing for those experiencing FEP.

Avaliação da autoestima e da paixão por musculação em universitários frequentadores de academia

INTRODUÇÃO: A autoestima é um aspecto psicológico que reflete em diversas áreas da vida dos indivíduos, inclusive na prática de exercício físico. Na mesma perspectiva, a paixão é uma variável motivacional importante e que corresponde à forma como o indivíduo trata uma atividade, para a qual demanda tempo e energia. OBJETIVO: Analisar a autoestima e paixão em universitários praticantes de musculação. MÉTODOS: Participaram da pesquisa com caráter descritivo transversal, 96 universitários (48 homens e 48 mulheres), com média de idade de 21,90±3,10 anos, praticantes de musculação na academia escola da Universidade Estadual de Maringá - PR. Os instrumentos utilizados foram uma ficha de identificação, Escala de Autoestima de Rosenberg e Escala da Paixão. Para análise dos dados foram utilizados os testes Kolmogorov-Smirnov, U de Mann Whitney e coeficiente de correlação de Spearman, adotando-se p<0,05. RESULTADOS: No geral, os resultados demonstraram que os universitários apresentaram elevada autoestima (Md=32,00), valores superiores para paixão harmoniosa (Md=5,20) e inferiores para a paixão obsessiva (Md=2,20). As comparações em função do sexo revelaram diferenças para paixão obsessiva (p=0,003), com valores superiores para os universitários do sexo masculino (Md=2,70) quando comparados ao sexo feminino (Md=2,00). Quando considerado o tempo de experiência da musculação, observou-se que os universitários que praticam a mais de um ano (Md=5,30) apresentaram valores superiores de paixão harmoniosa (p=0,04) quando comparados aos que praticam a menos de um ano (Md=4,90). Ao correlacionar a autoestima e a paixão em função do sexo dos praticantes, identificou-se correlação positiva e fraca entre a paixão harmoniosa e a autoestima nos praticantes do sexo masculino (r=0,396; p<0,05). CONCLUSÃO: Os universitários praticantes de musculação apresentam elevada autoestima e mostram-se apaixonados pela sua atividade. Além disso, para os homens, verificou-se que quanto maior a autoestima maior a paixão harmoniosa pela sua atividade.ABSTRACT. Evaluation of self-esteem and passion for bodybuilding in college students who frequent a gymBACKGROUND: Self-esteem is a psychological aspect that reflects in several areas of individuals’ lives, including the practice of physical exercise. In the same perspective, passion is an important motivational variable that corresponds to the way the individual treats an activity, for which demands time and energy. OBJECTIVE: To analyze self-esteem and passion in college students who practice weight training. METHODS: Participated in this research with a cross-sectional descriptive character, 96 college students (48 men and 48 women), with mean age of 21.90±3.10 years, practicing bodybuilding in the school gym of the State University of Maringá - PR, Brazil. The instruments used were an identification form, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and Passion Scale. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Mann Whitney’s U test, and Spearman’s correlation coefficient were used to analyze the data, using p<0.05. RESULTS: Overall, the results showed that college students had high self-esteem (Md=32.00), higher values for harmonious passion (Md=5.20) and lower values for obsessive passion (Md=2.20). Comparisons according to gender revealed differences for obsessive passion (p=0.003), with higher values for male college students (Md=2.70) when compared to female students (Md=2.00). When considered the time of experience in bodybuilding, it was observed that college students who have been practicing for more than a year (Md=5.30) presented higher values of harmonious passion (p=0.04) when compared to those who have been practicing for less than a year (Md=4.90). When correlating the self-esteem and passion in function of the practitioner’s sex, it was identified a positive and weak correlation between harmonious passion and self-esteem in male practitioners (r=0.396; p<0.05). CONCLUSION: The college students who practice weight training present high self-esteem and show passion for their activity. Moreover, for males, it was verified that the higher the self-esteem the higher the harmonious passion for their activity.

Life satisfaction of Paralympians: The role of needs satisfaction and passion

The current study examined the possible role of basic psychological needs and passion in Paralympians’ life satisfaction. A mediational model was tested where autonomy, competence and relatedness were hypothesized to be linked to athlete life satisfaction via harmonious and obsessive passion. The sample comprised 91 Portuguese Paralympians aged between 18 and 59 years ( M = 31.01; SD = 3.78). Athletes completed self-reports of needs satisfaction in their sport, passion towards their sport, and general life satisfaction. Perceptions of competence and relatedness were associated with harmonious passion (β = .37, p > .01; β = .21, p > .05, respectively), while perceptions of autonomy were associated with obsessive passion (β = .39, p > .05). Additionally, harmonious passion, but not obsessive passion, was associated with life satisfaction (β = .40, p > .01), and only the indirect effect from competence to life satisfaction, via harmonious passion, was significant. These results suggest that feeling autonomous may not necessarily translate into more harmonious passionate engagement but is associated with higher levels of obsessive passion. In contrast, competence and relatedness appear to play an important role in the life of athletes who experience a more harmonious passion towards their sport practice. Perceptions of mastery and competence, as well as sport-related social connections could be important to consider improving the lives of athletes with Paralympic experience.