Abstract
The present study focused on relationships between personality traits, self-efficacy, self-esteem and basic trust,
and well-being in context of entrepreneurial activity. Participants were 301 unemployed people, 157 of whom had received
a grant from an employment agency to start their own business. Participants completed measures of personality traits,
self-efficacy, self-esteem, basic trust, satisfaction with life, positive and negative affect. To verify if beliefs about the self
and about the world mediated relationships between personality traits and well-being we conducted a multiple-sample
SEM. The study results confirm that the beliefs mediate relationships between personality traits and well-being. They
also show that different types of beliefs serve a different function, depending on an individual’s circumstances. Among
grant acceptors, self-efficacy did not impact well-being, while self-esteem and basic trust had similar functions in
both groups.
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