ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

心理科学进展 ›› 2025, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (10): 1712-1730.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1042.2025.1712 cstr: 32111.14.2025.1712

• 研究构想 • 上一篇    下一篇

贫穷限制想象?贫困心态对创业构思的影响

黄皓1,2, 杨陈1, 梅玫1(), 刘晓萌3   

  1. 1 重庆理工大学管理学院, 重庆 400054
    2 西南财经大学中法创新研究中心, 成都 611130
    3 成都师范学院经济与管理学院, 成都 611130
  • 收稿日期:2025-04-09 出版日期:2025-10-15 发布日期:2025-08-18
  • 通讯作者: 梅玫, E-mail: mei@cqut.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金(72402021);重庆市教委科学技术研究项目(KJQN202301144);重庆市教委人文社科研究项目(24SKGH235);重庆市教育科学“十四五”规划课题(K23YY2110018)

Does poverty limit imagination? The impact of a poverty mindset on entrepreneurial ideation

HUANG Hao1,2, YANG Chen1, MEI Mei1(), LIU Xiaomeng3   

  1. 1 School of Management, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China
    2 Sino-French Innovation Research Center, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 611130, China
    3 School of Economics and Management, Chengdu Normal University, Chengdu 611130, China
  • Received:2025-04-09 Online:2025-10-15 Published:2025-08-18

摘要:

鼓励和促进金字塔底层(Bottom of the Pyramid, BOP)创业是近年来实现长效脱贫与乡村振兴有效衔接的新思路。然而, 迄今为止, 影响BOP群体创业行为的认知因素却很少受到关注。本研究聚焦“贫困心态是否影响创业构思”这一核心研究问题, 通过三大研究模块揭示BOP创业情境下贫困心态与创业构思的关系:1)稀缺理论视角下贫困心态影响创业构思的过程机理; 2)建构主义视角下贫困心态影响创业构思的干预策略; 3)稀缺自我调节视角下贫困心态构型及其预测效应。通过多视角系统研究设计, 本研究拟揭示贫困心态与创业构思的关系在本土BOP创业情境下的发展规律, 加深对情境-认知驱动下BOP创业者创新活动前端的理论认识, 为政府和实践界针对BOP群体的创业扶持政策制定和创业知识服务设计提供理论指导和实践启示。

关键词: 贫困心态, 创业构思, 创业心态

Abstract:

Encouraging and promoting entrepreneurship at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) has emerged as a novel approach in recent years for effectively linking long-term poverty alleviation with rural revitalization. However, to date, the cognitive factors influencing the entrepreneurial behavior of the BOP population have received scant attention. This study focuses on the core research question: “Does the poverty mindset affect entrepreneurial ideation?” and investigates the relationship between the poverty mindset and entrepreneurial ideation in the BOP entrepreneurial context through three major research modules. Research Module 1 adopts the scarcity theory perspective to explore process mechanisms through which the poverty mindset affects entrepreneurial ideation. Specifically: 1) Using the attentional focus shift path of scarcity, it reveals the "tunneling effect" on entrepreneurial ideation via prospective thinking and the resource-induced coping heuristic as mediating variables; 2) Applying the cognitive load path of scarcity, it demonstrates the "bandwidth effect" on entrepreneurial ideation through intuitive cognition and cognitive flexibility as mediators. Research Module 2 employs a constructivist lens to examine intervention strategies for poverty mindset's impact on entrepreneurial ideation. This includes: 1) Drawing from sensemaking theory to identify boundary conditions for the "tunneling effect" using perceived innovation legitimacy as moderator; 2) Grounded in cognitive construction theory, it establishes boundary conditions for the "bandwidth effect" using ideation structuring as moderator. Research Module 3 utilizes the scarcity self-regulation perspective to investigate latent profiles of poverty mindset and their predictive effects. Originating from the need to explore BOP entrepreneur heterogeneity, this module applies a person-centered research paradigm to examine whether replicable poverty mindset profiles exist among BOP entrepreneurs, and how these profiles predict entrepreneurial mindset and ideation quality. This study demonstrates the following theoretical innovations: first, we respond to the academic call to integrate poverty mindset and entrepreneurial mindset research by constructing the theoretical pathway “poverty mindset → entrepreneurial mindset → entrepreneurial ideation”, broadening the theoretical scope of poverty psychology driving entrepreneurial behavior processes and promoting cross-fertilization between scarcity theory and entrepreneurship research; second, we integrate perspectives from the cognitive-driven viewpoint of scarcity theory to propose the process mechanism through which the relationship between the poverty mindset and entrepreneurial ideation in the BOP context is mediated by the entrepreneurial mindset, thereby uncovering the black-box mechanism of how the poverty mindset acts upon entrepreneurial ideation and deepening the academic understanding of the front end of BOP entrepreneurs’ innovation activities under a poverty mindset; third, we construct an intervention framework for the “poverty mindset → entrepreneurial ideation” relationship, providing a new theoretical perspective for intervention strategies aimed at enhancing the quality of entrepreneurial ideation under a poverty mindset; fourth, we explore the latent profiles of the poverty mindset among BOP entrepreneurs and their predictive effects based on a person-centered research paradigm, enriching the application of the person-centered approach in entrepreneurial ideation research. Through a multi-perspective systematic research design, this study aims to reveal the developmental patterns of the relationship between the poverty mindset and entrepreneurial ideation in the local BOP entrepreneurial context, deepen the theoretical understanding of the front end of BOP entrepreneurs’ innovation activities driven by context and cognition, and provide theoretical guidance and practical implications for governments and practitioners in formulating entrepreneurial support policies and designing entrepreneurial knowledge services targeting the BOP population.

Key words: poverty mindset, entrepreneurial ideation, entrepreneurial mindset

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