Личностные особенности предпринимателей малых городов

Ольга Ивановна Муравьёва; Валерия Владимировна Мацута; Юлия Николаевна Ерлыкова

doi:10.21702/rpj.2012.2.3

Psychology of personality Vol. 9 No. 2 (2012)

Personality characteristics of entrepreneurs of small towns

Ольга Ивановна Муравьёва National Research Tomsk State University

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assistant professor of the department of psychology
of the personality of National Research Tomsk State University, Candidate of Psychological Sciences
Валерия Владимировна Мацута National Research Tomsk State University

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assistant professor of the department of organizational
psychology of National Research Tomsk State University, Candidate
of Psychological Sciences
Юлия Николаевна Ерлыкова National Research Tomsk State University

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5th year student of the faculty of psychology of National Research Tomsk State University

DOI https://doi.org/10.21702/rpj.2012.2.3

Abstract

The problem of psychological preconditions for the development of entrepreneurship in small towns of Russia is raised in the paper. Data about personality characteristics of small towns’ entrepreneurs are presented. The results of a comparative study of values,
hardiness, and ambiguity tolerance, which are inherent to the entrepreneurs and nonentrepreneurs of urban community Shira (Russia, Khakass Republic), are presented. Differences
in hardiness, ambiguity tolerance, and value orientations of small towns’ entrepreneurs (Shira) and big cities’ entrepreneurs (Tomsk) are revealed. The hypothesis about the destruction of traditional value system as a condition for development of entrepreneurial
personality qualities.

Keywords

entrepreneurs
small towns and big cities
hardiness
ambiguity tolerance
values

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Personality characteristics of entrepreneurs of small towns. (2012). Russian Psychological Journal, 9(2), 22-31. https://doi.org/10.21702/rpj.2012.2.3

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