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<p>Obesity is a physically experienced and visually perceived adversity that affects more than a billion people worldwide. This paper investigates how poorer health and psychosocial experiences of persons with obesity influence their entrepreneurial intentions and actions. Based on the German Socioeconomic Panel, there is no total effect of obesity on the probability of transitioning to entrepreneurship, but this hides contrasting underlying mechanisms. By estimating a mediation model, we show that obesity has a positive indirect effect on entrepreneurial intention through health and psychosocial mediators but a negative indirect effect on transitioning through the health mediator. The contrasting indirect effects on psychologically distant intention and psychologically near transitioning are consistent with construal level theory. This study has theoretical implications for research on entrepreneurship in response to adversity, employment outcomes of obesity, and the intention-action link in entrepreneurship.</p>

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Entrepreneurial intention and action in response to obesity: the roles of health and psychosocial experience

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    2026年4月25日

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  • Frank M. Fossen,
  • Stela Ivanova

摘要

Obesity is a physically experienced and visually perceived adversity that affects more than a billion people worldwide. This paper investigates how poorer health and psychosocial experiences of persons with obesity influence their entrepreneurial intentions and actions. Based on the German Socioeconomic Panel, there is no total effect of obesity on the probability of transitioning to entrepreneurship, but this hides contrasting underlying mechanisms. By estimating a mediation model, we show that obesity has a positive indirect effect on entrepreneurial intention through health and psychosocial mediators but a negative indirect effect on transitioning through the health mediator. The contrasting indirect effects on psychologically distant intention and psychologically near transitioning are consistent with construal level theory. This study has theoretical implications for research on entrepreneurship in response to adversity, employment outcomes of obesity, and the intention-action link in entrepreneurship.