TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Moal, Mathieu Le
AU  - Thurik, Roy
AU  - Torrès, Olivier
AU  - Soenen, Guillaume
        TI  - Small Business Owners and Daily Recovery Experiences: The Link with Well-Being and Burnout
        PY  - 2024/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17548
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17548
        AB  - We analyse the links between daily recovery experiences after work (detachment, relaxation, mastery and control) and mental health (well-being and burnout) based on four surveys of French small business owners. First, comparing our results with those of employees' recovery experiences, we find that small business owners have fewer recovery experiences for all four dimensions. Second, controlling for gender, age, life partner, education level, executive experience, business size, capital ownership and type of entrepreneur, both linear regressions and SEM analysis show that the quality of overall daily recovery experiences increases well-being and reduces burnout. 
Third, we show that the detachment component is not correlated with well-being, and the mastery component is not correlated with burnout. Relaxation and control are most strongly associated with wellbeing, whereas control has the strongest association with burnout. Many implications (including clinical) are discussed.
        KW  - small business owners
KW  - entrepreneurs
KW  - daily recovery experiences
KW  - well-being
KW  - burnout
KW  - France
        ER  -