🎓The Psychology of Female Entrepreneurship: Personality, Demands, Resources, and Stress Across Business

: This dissertation explores how women start, build, and sustain their own businesses, focusing on both personal strengths and external challenges. Taking a psychological perspective, it examines which factors help women succeed in entrepreneurship — such as confidence in their own abilities — as well as the demands they face in their work and private lives. The research highlights how individual as well as structural resources and barriers shape women’s experiences as entrepreneurs, influencing their income, health, and overall business success. By looking at individual traits, work and family demands, and broader societal conditions together, the dissertation provides a comprehensive picture of female entrepreneurship. It shows how women navigate different phases of their entrepreneurial journey and how they cope with challenges. Overall, it offers practical insights into how support programs can better address women’s specific needs in entrepreneurship.